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LSO play Bruckner

By Ken Ward, 11 March 2011
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Reviewed at Barbican Hall, London on 7 March 2011
Programme
Messiaen, Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum, for orchestra
Bruckner, Symphony no. 9 in D minor, WAB 109
Performers
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor
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Ken Ward
Ken Ward
Ken Ward spent most of his working life driving buses for Eastern National and London Buses. With a life-long enthusiasm for the works of Bruckner, he became editor of The Bruckner Journal in 2005 and was awarded The Bruckner Society of America 'Kilenyi' Medal of Honor in 2011.