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BBC Symphony Orchestra & Davóne Tines
Italian maestro Daniele Rustioni—currently Principal Guest Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera—leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra across three performances that move easily between canon, crossover, and something closer to now.
The evening opens with Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story—scored in 1960, adapted for full symphony orchestra from West Side Story, and still somehow both high-art and everyone’s favorite musical.
At the center: the formidable Davóne Tines, performing his own Concerto No. 2: ANTHEM. Part protest, part gospel, part classical invocation, it’s a genre-bending examination of American identity—and a reminder that classical music is very much a living thing.
The program closes with Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 3: restless, late-career, and quietly devastating.
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From: February 13th, 2026
Until: February 13th, 2026
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