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Xian Zhang and the Philadelphia Orchestra ring in the New Year with essential Beethoven

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“everyone, from the orchestra to the ushers to the audience desperately wanted to be there”
Reviewed at Kimmel Center: Marian Anderson Hall, Philadelphia on 2 January 2022
Rossini, Guillaume Tell (William Tell): Overture
Beethoven, Symphony no. 7 in A major, Op.92
Strauss II, Unter Donner und Blitz (Thunder and Lightning Polka), Op.324
Traditional, Auld Lang Syne
Strauss I, Radetzky March, Op.228
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Xian Zhang, Conductor
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Rarities surround Tchaikovsky favorite at the Philadelphia Orchestra
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