Week of June 29, 2009

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Christine Brewer, soprano

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Program:
Strauss: Four Last Songs
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6
Schubert: Des Madchens Klage
Dvorak: Symphony No. 7

Description:
Just before American soprano Christine Brewer's mother passed away, she claimed to hear birds singing -- an image Brewer holds to this day as she sings Strauss' luminous Four Last Songs, which ends with a pair of bird-like flutes winging toward the sunset.

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