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Strauss’s “Four Last Songs” with Rachel Willis-Sørensen

January 4, 2018, 10:00 pm

Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen sings Strauss’s famous Four Last Songs in a program that also features pianist Emanuel Ax playing Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2.

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Strauss’s “Four Last Songs” with Rachel Willis-Sørensen