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Last Monday I enjoyed leading my first rehearsal for a late-October program I’ll be conducting with the Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra. It’s an exceptionally well-organized group of talented and enthusiastic amateur players, and it was a treat for me to begin working with the full group.

In the spring of 2006, I conducted a subset of the group together with the Albuquerque Gay Men’s Chorus performing some Masonic music of Mozart, and I was delighted to be invited by David Felberg (the APO’s music director) and the APO board to guest conduct these performances.

The program will be Bernstein’s Candide overture, the double concerto in d minor for violin, piano, and strings by Mendelssohn (featuring Hao Huang and Rachel Huang as soloists), and Brahms’ second symphony.  More information about the concert will be available at the APO’s website.