Beethoven bust in Tower Grove Park. Photographed by me.
On January 10 and 11, the St. Louis Symphony will perform Stephanie Berg’s concert overture “Ravish and Mayhem,” Nielsen’s brilliant and bristly Violin Concerto, and Beethoven’s ubiquitous Seventh. Here are my program notes for the concert, beginning on p. 26.
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