<div align="center"> <div align="center"><br /><font color="rgb(0,32,96)" face="Verdana" size="4"><strong>Russia Series I - KBSSO the 679th Subscription Concert</strong></font></div><font size="3"> <div align="left"><br /><font face="Verdana"><font color="rgb(192,0,0)"><font color="rgb(0,0,0)" size="2"><strong><font size="3"><font color="rgb(192,0,0)">M</font>usic of Russian Love </font></strong><br />Tatyana Vasilyeva, the first Russian to win the Rostropovich Cello Competition (2001), plays Tchaikovsky¡¯s Variations on a Rococo Theme. With Vasilyeva¡¯s elegant tone and bold music-making, Variations will overflow with Tchaikovskian melancholy and harmonic beauty. Taking the flame to Stravinsky, one of Maestro Yoel Levi¡¯s favored composers to record, The Firebird is sure to leave audiences mesmerized. The Firebird went through two revisions with reduced orchestra at each stage. In this program, the complete first version from 1910 will be performed: the massive orchestra will exude grandeur and splendor as it unfolds the gleeful Russian fairy tale of Prince Ivan and an enchanted bird.</font></font></font></div></font> <div align="left"></div></div>