November 1, 2014
UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra in Russian program
Under the leadership of music director David Milnes the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra has come a long way from a time when attending its concerts was something done as much out of a sense of civic duty as in the expectation of great music-making. And the evidence was surely on display in performances of Rachmaninoff’s daunting Symphonic Dances over the recent Halloween weekend.
The Dances, the composer’s last numbered work, truly comprise a magnum opus,...