Unfamiliar Sounds from Poland
STANFORD, CA—Could anyone doubt that classical music is the world’s true lingua franca today, drawing together four continents? Consider a Polish orchestra coming here on tour with a South Korean violin soloist who had studied at the Juilliard School, NYC, and Nicaraguan conductor with an Italian name. Playing music from Germany and the Czech Republic from different centuries. The Polish NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic made a rare swing through Northern California and played two home-grown specials plus the Brahms First. This…