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The season-ending concert of the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra, led by Stephen Alltop, was a distinguished evening, both for musical values and as testimony to the history of this important organization

I attended a delightful performance of Peter Tchaikovsky’s classic holiday favorite, “The Nutcracker,” on Nov. 30, the first of six performances at Krannert’s Tryon Festival Theatre.

Little did the quartet members know on Oct. 3 what upheaval would break out in the Middle East just a few days later.