From Russia with Love

With Janna Hymes, guest conductor, the Colby  Symphony Orchestra will perform three staples of uniquely Russian classical music: from Mikhail Glinka, the early 19^th-century father of the Russian orchestral style, his famous and rousing opera overture Ruslan and Lyudmilla; from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the late-19^th-century romantic and master melodist, his Symphony No. 2, The Little Russian; and from Aram Khachaturian, Soviet-endorsed, then condemned, and then endorsed again, his Masquerade suite of five dances.