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

By Sydney Boyd, 13 September 2015
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Reviewed at Jones Hall, Houston on 12 September 2015
Programme
Gershwin, An American in Paris
Bernstein, West Side Story: Suite (Suite for Violin and Orchestra)
Stravinsky, The Firebird: Suite (1919 version)
Performers
Houston Symphony
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Conductor
Joshua Bell, Violin
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Sydney Boyd
Sydney Boyd
Sydney Boyd is an arts writer, scholar, and violinist. She has been a music critic in Houston since 2012 and is the blog author of Girl at the Opera. She has a Ph.D. in English literature from Rice University, where she currently holds a post-doctoral Spatial Studies fellowship in the Humanities Research Center.