Stravinsky’s The Firebird

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FABIO LUISI conducts GLINKA Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 2 in C minor, “Little Russian” STRAVINSKY The Firebird Suite (1945) Music Director Fabio Luisi will step into Stravinsky’s shoes as he conducts a replica of the 1946 concert, when the great composer led the DSO in these very works — an inspired program of quintessentially Russian music. To that point, we have a clue in the nickname of Tchaikovsky’s Second Symphony, with the final movement spinning colorful variations on “The Crane,” a lively folk song on everyone’s lips at the time. The Firebird’s exotic scenario is the stuff of fairytales: a prince, 13 princesses, the Firebird’s magic feather and an ogre. Its bold orchestral colors glitter and pulse, creatin