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Ukraine's Colors Shine Through Charlotte Symphony Celebration

Mar 12, 2022

By Perry Tannenbaum, CVNC -- 

When 57 musicians gathered at the Carolina Theatre on Tryon Street to present the inaugural Charlotte Symphony concert on March 20, 1932, none of them could have possibly predicted how the orchestra's 90th anniversary would be celebrated in 2022. Three of the five pieces that Christopher Warren-Green conducted, nearing the end of his distinguished tenure as the Charlotte Symphony's music director, hadn't been written yet, and one of the composers hadn't been born. Even last May, when CSO's 2021-22 season was announced, Warren-Green himself couldn't have predicted how grimly appropriate Ralph Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem would be for the occasion. As originally conceived, the program was an olive branch from England to America, three British composers conducted by one of the Crown's finest, two of the pieces paying homage to Walt Whitman, our greatest poet.

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