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wall street journal on carnegie series

From tomorrow’s issue of the Wall Street Journal:

Most of the concert offerings assembled by the orchestras are truly inventive, forging intriguing thematic links or presenting works considered dicey at the box office. On Wednesday, the Dallas Symphony will give the New York premiere of “August 4, 1964” for chorus, soloists and orchestra, a 70-minute concert drama by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky. The piece revisits two fateful events during the Lyndon Johnson presidency—one affecting the civil-rights movement, the other, the Vietnam War. On Thursday, the 76-member Oregon Symphony Orchestra will make its Carnegie debut with an intelligently conceived, war-themed program of John Adams, Benjamin Britten, Charles Ives and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Subsequent performances by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the 92-member Montreal Symphony Orchestra should prove equally stimulating.

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