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Depth and delivery: Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in San Francisco

By Lois Silverstein, 09 April 2024
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“Bell executed his mastery with ever special sweetness”
Reviewed at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco on 7 April 2024
Programme
Mendoza, Flight of Moving Days
Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64
Schumann, Symphony no. 2 in C major, Op.61
Performers
Douglas Marriner, Percussion
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Joshua Bell, Violin, Director
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Lois Silverstein
Lois Silverstein

Lois Silverstein, PhD, a New Yorker born and bred, has lived and worked in San Francisco for over 35 years. Her eight books include novels, poems, essays and memoir; she also writes reviews for OperaWire. After numerous roles in San Francisco Opera as a supernumerary, she performed her one-woman, multimedia show about a freedom fighter in 1939, during the fall of Poland, Valia: The Story of a Woman of Courage. Her newest novel, When Crying Stops: War Echoes from Romania, will be published in 2024.