Jose Franch-Ballester with the Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra March 28, 2009

"What is life but a series of Preludes to that unknown hymn," Liszt wrote of his own symphonic poem Les Preludes. Thus sets the tone of the evening's music through glimpses of life - the amusements of the idle rich at the masques in the elegant townhouses of Paris, the anxiety of graduation recitals for clarinet students at the Conservatoire, and the turmoil of a nation embroiled in war as witnessed by Abraham Lincoln - the man and the President. Join the Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra with guest artist Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet.

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