Minnesota Orchestra and a peculiar troika
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An American curtainraiser and two big Russian works (having nothing in common but their Russianness) made a peculiar troika on Thursday's Minnesota Orchestra program. Superbly led by associate conductor Mischa Santora
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Jennifer Higdon's "blue cathedral" (2000) has been played by more than 100 orchestras and no wonder
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I react allergically to much of Sergei Rachmaninoff's overblown music, but pianist Andrew Staupe had me believing, intermittently at least, in the charms of Rachmaninoff's First Concerto.
Making his subscription debut with the orchestra, the St
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Rachmaninoff revised his First Concerto in 1917, as the October Revolution raged outside the walls of his Moscow flat. Twenty years later, when Dmitri Shostakovich was writing his Fifth Symphony
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Given the stakes
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The Fifth shows no sign of obsolescence. What would have happened if the New York Philharmonic had played it this week in North Korea
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