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Credit Ballet Arts Ensemble of Kalamazoo Daniel Brier Credit Colin Howe / Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra Conductor Daniel Brier says he and the Kalamazoo Symphony staff have learned many new skills and put in long hours to create a season of online concerts. In a conversation with Cara Lieurance, he says the final Digital Concert Hall performance makes him proud:  It's Prokofiev's  Peter And The Wolf, featuring the orchestra, narrator David Little, and the Ballet Arts Ensemble of Kalamazoo. Little recorded the narration first, then the symphony recorded the music, then the dancers performed t...

Rachel Miller and the KSO in rehearsal. Credit Matthew Schweppe / Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra The concert, which was recorded under COVID-19 guidelines at Comstock High School Auditorium, opens with an opera overture by the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the son of a French nobleman and a Senegalese slave who became an accomplished violinist, composer, swordsman and military leader in 18th century France.  Rachel Miller, the KSO's principal harpist since 2018, is featured in  Debussy's  Danses sacrée et profane. She says it is one of the best-known pieces in the harp repertoire, and a chal...