Manny Laureano, Music Director & Conductor
Nygel Witherspoon, Cello
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Photo by Matt Brenengen
The BSO will close the season with the magnificent Fifth Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich which originally served as a reluctant yet left-handed apology to dictator Josef Stalin. We are also pleased to present Minnesota’s own Nygel Witherspoon in a performance of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto in B minor!