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Not only was it an excellent concert throughout, it pointed to the way the VSO and many American symphony orchestras are going will be going in the future.
Andrew Crust will close his first season as music director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra with Mozart’s Requiem, a masterpiece largely considered the composer’s last word.
The most impressive, of course, was violinist Sarah Chang’s return. She was soloist at Haskins’ first concert with the orchestra. In 2009, they partnered for Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E-minor.
Divers attempt to retrieve the cross at Epiphany in Tarpon Springs, and the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is back.
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