I was originally planning on attending the Saturday performance of the ASO, but Thomas Søndergård is conducting again and I just don’t like his work. I ended up holding off on donating the ticket back, though, so that I could attend the chamber concert of the Merian Ensemble that was scheduled to proceed the ASO’s Thursday performance. The Merian Ensemble is dedicated to bringing the works of women composers to audiences and, even though they’ll be staging a more fleshed out program on the 17th at the Schwartz Center, I wasn’t going to turn down a chance to hear a program of music that I’d never heard before.
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