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March 13, 2010
U-M conductor Jerry Blackstone

Ringing Rachmaninoff's bells

Jerry Blackstone's ravishing choirs

by James Leonard

posted 2/16/2009

No one there will ever forget it—the moment the massed forces of the University Symphony Orchestra and Choirs launched into Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Sea Symphony with a tutti the size of a tsunami: “Behold: the sea!” And as the tidal waves of sound swept over Hill Auditorium, the idea was born in more than one listener: conductor and choral director Jerry

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