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Cox and Beilman Take on Programming Changes in Stride in Satisfying Charlotte Symphony Concert

Oct 29, 2021

By Perry Tannenbaum, CVNC -- 

Holding our collective breaths, subscribers can hope that the current Charlotte Symphony program represents the last retreats from the fare originally announced for the 2021-22 season. Although Richard Wagner's Siegfried Idyll replaced Zoltan Kodály's Dances of Galánta and Johannes Brahms' Serenade No. 2 replaced his Symphony No. 3, we still had guest conductor Roderick Cox and guest soloist Benjamin Beilman, though Beilman needed to be as flexible as the orchestra, switching from the Charlotte premiere of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto to Mozart's "Turkish" Violin Concerto No. 5. Of course, Brahms himself might have laughed out loud at the hasty substitution, since he had been so famously averse to attempting a symphony while Beethoven's shadow still loomed so large. Compounding the hilarity, the Serenade No. 2 may have been historic, possibly the first closing piece at a Symphony Classics Series concert to be played without violins onstage.

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