You might think a piece of classical music composed about a symposium on different philosophers would not be terribly romantic. You'd be wrong.
The Illinois Symphony Orchestra demonstrated that with a performance of Leonard Bernstein's Serenade for Orchestra. In this conversation with GLT's Charlie Schlenker, ISO Music Director Ken Lam said the work shows the two sides of Bernstein's personality, the deeply emotive and the heady man of ideas.
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