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Spring For Music: National Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall

Conductor Christoph Eschenbach and the National Symphony Orchestra gave the final performance in this year's Spring for Music Festival at Carnegie Hall on May 11, 2013. The program was of all 20th-century Russian music: Shchedrin's Slava, Slava; Schnittke's Viola Concerto; and Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Torsten Kjellstrand for NPR hide caption

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Classics in Concert

Spring For Music: National Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall

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Hear an evening of intriguing 20th-century Russian music — including Shostakovich, Schnittke and Shchedrin — that pays tribute to the orchestra's late and longtime leader, Mstislav Rostropovich.

Spring For Music: National Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall

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Christoph Eschenbach: Husband To A Hundred

Christoph Eschenbach is both a pianist and a conductor. Getty Images hide caption

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Christoph Eschenbach: Husband To A Hundred

Eschenbach, 70, has been called brilliant and erratic, but never bland. As the new conductor of Washington D.C.'s National Symphony Orchestra, he brings with him an eye for talent and a storied past.

Christoph Eschenbach: Husband To A Hundred

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Christoph Eschenbach Ushers In A New Era For National Symphony Orchestra

Christoph Eschenbach, in concert Thursday night, with the National Symphony Orchestra. Margot Ingoldsby Schulman/NSO hide caption

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Deceptive Cadence

Christoph Eschenbach Ushers In A New Era For National Symphony Orchestra

The newly hired music director and the orchestra of the nation's capital gave their first concert together last night. In a mix of old and new music, Eschenbach and the National Symphony Orchestra might just make a good match

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