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Symphony Preview, February 14 and 15: The Comeback Kid
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Symphony Preview, February 14 and 15: The Comeback Kid

For Valentine’s Day weekend, a world premiere, one of Tchaikovsky's Greatest Hits, and the Piano Concerto the brought Rachmaninoff's career back from the dead.

For Valentine’s Day weekend, Music Director Stéphane Denève and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra have a program that features a pair of passionate audience favorites by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, along with the world premiere of Anna Clyne’s multi-media Concerto for Orchestra, “PALETTE.”

I covered Clyne’s work extensively in an interview with her on my video blog. In this piece I’m going to concentrate of the two Romantic blockbusters by liberally re-writing material I first published about a decade ago.

[Preview the music with the SLSO’s Spotify playlist.]

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