UIS' Yona Stamatis talks with Illinois Symphony Orchestra Music Director and Conductor Ken Lam about this weekend's concert - a Bicentennial Celebration featuring Joan Tower's adventurous First Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, Copland's masterful Lincoln Portrait, and the resouding "Ode to Joy" of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
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A Preview of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra's "Bicentennial Celebration"
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