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Kalle Kuusava, a Finnish conductor and winner of European Conductors Competition in Oslo in 2013, will lead a concert ...

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and harpist Ema Mitarai with her pivotal role supporting the Scheherazade music of the solo violin as a whole. The imaginative orchestration of Festival At Baghdad was then fully brought to life ...

Scheherazade got off to a sluggish start, with music director Robert Spano beating time with little expressive direction. Too many quiet wind chords — tricky, admittedly — didn’t sound together.