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Week of June 18, 2012


Minnesota Orchestra
Kristjan Järvi, conductor
Alisa Weilerstein, cello

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Program:
STRAVINSKY: Symphony in Three Movements
SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concerto No. 1
RACHMANINOV: Symphonic Dances
GRIEG: excerpts from Peer Gynt -Eiji Oue, conductor (MPR 100203-12) Minnesota Orchestra at One Hundred


Description:
This week's show features Russian music from at time when most Russian composers happened to live in the US. (Strange, but true.)

Enter this week's Encore Contest

Kurt K. of Corvallis, OR, won this week's encore contest by correctly id'ing Bach's Bouree from his Cello Suite No. 3



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Kristjan Järvi

Alisa Weilerstein

Igor Stravinsky

Serge Rachmaninov