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The Cornell Symphony Orchestra performs its first concert of the spring semester on Saturday, March 9 at 3:00 pm at Bailey Hall. Conducted by Adrian Slywotzky, the program is suitable for all ages and includes Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Cornell Concerto Competition winner Aditya Deshpande ’22 as the soloist. Deshpande, a computer science major, is an accomplished pianist who won several music competitions in Houston and India and placed highly in additional competitions in Seattle and Germany.
Hickey’s Music Center sponsors a pre-concert Instrument Petting Zoo at 2:00 pm in the lower lobby of Bailey Hall. Slywotzky, Associate Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, leads a pre-concert presentation onstage at 2:30 pm for audience members interested in learning more about the music.
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