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MUNICH, Germany, Sep 20, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Germany's Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra is gearing up for its first United States tour under the guidance of new Conductor Mariss Jansons.
Bavarian orchestra will make its U.S. debut with its new Latvian-born conductor on Nov. 1 in Philadelphia and continue with performances in New York and Chicago.
The international orchestra intends to play works from Strauss, Wagner, Bartok, Beethoven, Liebermann, Sibelius and most notably Jansons' favorite, Shostakovich, the orchestra said in a news release.
"A very short and simple answer is that he is a genius and I like his music enormously," Jansons said of the Russian composer. "The longer answer is that I lived in the Soviet Union and I now live in Russia, and his music is for me very close in the content and atmosphere; the images that he expresses in his music are very clear for me."
The Munich-based orchestra was formed in 1949 by Eugen Jochum and has since fostered a reputation for its wide-ranging repertoire and an affinity for new and contemporary music.
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