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The Firebird makes for a winning opening night at Houston Symphony Orchestra

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Reviewed at Jones Hall, Houston on 12 September 2015
Gershwin, An American in Paris
Bernstein, West Side Story: Suite (Suite for Violin and Orchestra)
Stravinsky, The Firebird: Suite (1919 version)
Houston Symphony
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Conductor
Joshua Bell, Violin
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