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The TSO’s RUSSIAN GEMS reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

Wednesday, November 30, 2o11. Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto. The disposition of Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto is often antic—shifting tempi, tone and timbre without warning.  Its angular lines dance, hectic and corybantic, lurching in irregular metres, taking long, grinning glissando slides spotlighted … Continue reading

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