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[Brian]

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Virtuoso Liszt

Artists

RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS, conductor
KIRILL GERSTEIN, piano

Program

LISZT Les Préludes
LISZT Piano Concerto No. 1
BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra

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How this orchestra can even afford to perform is beyond me. I guess a bankrupted city can still have an orchestra.

[Karl Henning]

http://dso.org/live.aspx

Virtuoso Liszt

Artists

RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS, conductor
KIRILL GERSTEIN, piano

Program

LISZT Les Préludes
LISZT Piano Concerto No. 1
BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra

Mm, nice program.

Between the city being on the long skids, and the collapse of the Minnesota Orchestra, the pressure is on the Detroit Symphony.

[Brian]

How this orchestra can even afford to perform is beyond me. I guess a bankrupted city can still have an orchestra.

This particular concert is bankrolled by Ford. You'll notice that many American cities with great orchestras - Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia - are also industrial hubs which rolled in wealth a hundred years ago.

Halfway through the Liszt concerto now. Enjoying it!

[Mirror Image]

This particular concert is bankrolled by Ford. You'll notice that many American cities with great orchestras - Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia - are also industrial hubs which rolled in wealth a hundred years ago.

Halfway through the Liszt concerto now. Enjoying it!

But we're not talking about hundred years ago, we're talking about right now and that figures that it's funded by Ford. That's the least they could do for that city, but a mixture of poor political decisions, incompetence, and sneaky, underhanded negotiations have plagued this once fine city. Now, it's just one huge ghetto. But this is what the politicians wanted I suppose.