Diane Wittry returns this October, joined by ‘cellist Jacqueline Choi, in a program of Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich.
Sunday, October 30, 2011, 2:00 p.m.
The Broadway Presbyterian Church, New York, NY
Diane Wittry, guest conductor
Jacqueline Choi, ‘cellist
Johannes Brahms
Haydn Variations
Op. 56a
Composed in 1873
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rococo Theme
Op. 33
Composed in 1877
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 9 in Eb Major
Op. 70
Composed in 1945
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