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Black Oak Ensemble

January 23, 2023, 8:00 pm

Black Oak Ensemble (Photo: Ayaka Sano)

The Black Oak Ensemble’s latest CD release, Avant l’orage, a double album of French string trios, reached #1 in the Billboard Classical Charts in July 2022 and was album of the week on Symphony Hall Sirius XM. Featured on New Releases with Lisa Flynn, the ensemble comes in person now to the Levin Studio to perform for this week’s Live From WFMT.

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