Pinchas Zukerman Conducts
Pinchas Zukerman conducts the Civic Orchestra of Chicago in the String Symphony No. 10 by Felix Mendelssohn, music he wrote when he was 14 years old. Then, joined by his student Ariel Shamai (whom he teaches at the Manhattan School of Music in New York), Zukerman conducts the COC in Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor. Recorded on October 20th at Orchestra Hall in Chicago. (WFMT, Chicago)
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