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Performer: Jon Kimura Parker

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Minnesota Orchestra offers up a musical potpourri

In something of a surprise, the standout item on this Minnesota Orchestra concert program turned out to be a short chamber piece by Miguel del Águila.

***11
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Intriguing Voyage Out anchored by 19th-century delights in Seattle

Seattle's 2019 Chamber Music Summer Festival premiered Sebastian Currier's Voyage Out, which uses the piano quintet to reimagine the metaphor of musical journeys, on a program framed by passionate 19th-century chamber compositions.
****1
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Made in the USA: Gershwin and beyond

There was lots to like in the Philadelphia Orchestra's All-American Celebration for Thanksgiving.
***11
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Alsop scores an auspicious debut with the CSO

Marin Alsop made belated subscription debut with the CSO Thanksgiving weekend with a varied program contrasting 20th and 21st century British and American works with Dvořák's tragic Seventh Symphony.
***11
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A full chamber feast in Seattle

Not painting by the numbers: with a trio, a pair of quartets, and an octet, the Seattle Chamber Music Society offers more than the sum of its parts.
****1
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An American festival with the RSNO

As a teenager, I recall feeling how American classical music differed from European; its harmonies seemed as wide open as the plains depicted on film; its rhythmic freedom grabbed me viscerally. The same feeling obtains many years later and certainly did in this RSNO programme.
*****
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