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Is Anybody Listening?

Beyond Arizona, musicians rave about it, but the Phoenix Symphony, at 50, plays to half-empty houses at home. Can its new maestro, Hermann Michael, fill the seats?

A A A Comments By Michael Kiefer Thursday, Jun 5 1997

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So even if they reach a new audience, how welcome will they be?

On May 9, the Phoenix Symphony played its season's last classical concert to a three-quarters-full house. Hermann Michael conducted.

The program said Liszt and Dvorak and Hovhaness, but what the audience heard was all love songs, the orchestra's devotion and admiration for its new leader, and its hope that next year, Phoenix will finally come to listen.

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