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Culture: Young and modern; Christopher Morley previews the week ahead in classical music.(Features)

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20041125
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Byline: Christopher Morley

Members of the University of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra set themselves a brave challenge on Sunday afternoon when they present a highly attractive programme of early 20th-century music at the Adrian Boult Hall.

Under the gifted young conductor Martin Leigh the BUSO plays two of the colourful scores written for Serge Diaghilev's 'Ballets Russes': the Suite no.2 from Ravel's sumptuous Daphnis and Chloe, and Stravinsky's primitive, viscerally exciting The Rite of Spring.

As if these delights weren't enough, the ...

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