By Jacob Stockinger This coming weekend, the Madison Symphony Orchestra (below) offers one of the best must-hear programs of the season – or so thinks The Ear. Pianist Stephen Hough (below, in a photo by Sim Canetty-Clarke) returns for his fourth appearance with the Madison Symphony Orchestra (MSO), led by music director and conductor John DeMain . The concert will open with Samuel Barber’s Second Essay, a dramatic piece written in the midst of World War II , followed by a performance of the [...]
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