Joshua Bell & Academy of St Martin in the Fields
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Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields return to Davies Symphony Hall for a program of favorites. This concert, the culmination of a music residency with ASMF and Bell at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, features Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, performed side-by-side with students from SFCM, and Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, featuring SFCM student Fiona Cunninghame-Murray alongside Bell.
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