
Julio Bragado-Young & Gillian Murphy
With Conductor Max Bragado-Darman at the helm, the Monterey Symphony launched its second concert of the 2011-2012 season last night in the Performing Arts Center at the Steinbeck Institute of Arts and Culture (most of us will forever continue to refer to it by its former name, “Sherwood Hall”). We heard on this occasion an unusual program with only two works performed. However, these two works assumed special significance since one included a ballet performance by four distinguished dancers from the American Ballet Theatre, and the other featured a new beginning of collaboration between the Monterey Symphony and Youth Music Monterey.
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