An organ in a symphony? That’s not something you hear every day. But Camille Saint-Saëns wasn’t one to follow the usual rules ...
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The audience response was appropriately tepid. The second piece was Violin Concerto No. 3 by Camille Saint-Saëns San Diego Symphony concertmaster Jeff Thayer was the soloist. It should be noted ...
perform the Saint-Saëns Violin concerto no. 3, after which we will play the epic Symphony no. 10 by Dmitri Shostakovich." ...
There's much more to Saint-Saëns than the Carnival of the Animals ... for the Prix de Rome – and again in 1864 when he was an established composer. His First Symphony appeared in 1853: Gounod was ...