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Highlights
French piano master Jean-Philippe Collard joins the Symphony for a performance of Camille Saint-Saëns' multi-varied Piano Concert No. 4.

From Eric Bromberger's program note: "Saint-Saëns took something else from Liszt: the concept of cyclic form. Both composers had been anxious to escape the domination of German music, and particularly to free themselves from sonata form, which is built on the opposition of different material. In its place, Liszt came up with what he called 'the transformation of themes,' a process by which certain seminal theme-shapes evolve across the span of an entire work, taking on a different character as they reappear in different forms."

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Artists' Bios
Jean-Philippe Collard

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