Guest conductor Karina Canellakis leads the N.C. Symphony’s White Nights Russian Festival doubleheader Friday and Saturday at Booth Amphitheatre in Cary.
Guest conductor Karina Canellakis leads the N.C. Symphony’s White Nights Russian Festival doubleheader Friday and Saturday at Booth Amphitheatre in Cary. Todd Rosenberg Todd Rosenberg Photography
Guest conductor Karina Canellakis leads the N.C. Symphony’s White Nights Russian Festival doubleheader Friday and Saturday at Booth Amphitheatre in Cary. Todd Rosenberg Todd Rosenberg Photography

Arts & Culture

Classical Picks, June 12: Canellakis leads Russian fest in Cary

By Roy C. Dicks

Correspondent

June 11, 2015 09:00 AM

The N.C. Symphony plays a doubleheader Russian festival this weekend at Cary’s Booth Amphitheatre. Friday, guest conductor Karina Canellakis leads Jinjoo Cho in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto along with works by Shostakovich, Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov. On Saturday night, Canellakis conducts Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade” and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 (Sean Chen, soloist). 7:30 p.m.

General lawn admission $28, covered table seating $31). 919-733-2750 or ncsymphony.org.

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