Ms. Young is becoming better known 'in these parts' by way of her guest conducting in the US. The program includes a rarely heard opera overture by Pfitzner (a contemporary of Sibelius).

Berlioz's "Symphonie fantastique" is still 'fantastic' in so many ways....over 170 years since it's composition, listeners still marvel at it's sonic majesty.....

Dvorak's 7th SYmphony was premiered in Piccadilly [UK!} on April 22, 1885 with the composer conducting...Corigliano's "Red Violin" comes more than 100 years later, his original ideas from 1998, then the concert work from 2003.

A Thousand and One Nights. Scheherazade figures out a way to avoid being killed (like all those who came before her): tell a fresh story every night, for 1,001 nights....

Sibelius wanted to be one of the great violinists. He never succeeded at it. However, he left posterity an amazing violin concerto that continues to delight to this day.