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Mr. Vanska has conducted the Minnesota Orchestra only once, last October. He remembers it as ''a very positive orchestra,'' he said. ''It's the dream of every conductor, an orchestra hungry to work.''
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Brian Grivna began performing at age 12 as Young Artist clarinet soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra. He added saxophone and flute the following year and by age 15 was subbing for his teacher in commercial dance bands. After receiving his B.A. in English literature from Dartmouth College, he worked in jazz, commercial, and theater music before joining the Buddy Rich band in 1971. He toured with Rich for almost two years, recording four RCA albums and several television shows.
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Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring is a showpiece of orchestral virtuosity perfectly suited to the vibrant partnership between Iván Fischer and the brilliant Budapest Festival Orchestra. Bartók’s third piano concerto, perhaps his most popular work, is a haunting and elegiac work with hints of bird song and Hungarian folk music.
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