Week of February 9, 2009

The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
The Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Douglas Boyd, conductor

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Program:
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Tippett: Concerto for Double String Orchestra
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

Description:
When you have a birthday, you throw a party, and when you have a milestone birthday you throw a big party. The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, America's only fulltime professional chamber orchestra, turns 50 this year, and to celebrate they've invited the world's great chamber orchestras to share the stage with them -- starting with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

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