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Welcome to Season Seven of the Stratford Symphony Orchestra

THE OTHER FIFTH: The Stratford Symphony Orchestra will conclude its seventh season Saturday, May 5, with Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 and his Cossack Dance, as well as a composition by Ronald Royer, who will conduct the concert.

Mr. Royer has composed for such notables as cellist Shauna Rolston, the Gryphon Trio, St. Lawrence Quartet, and French flutist and conductor Patrick Gallois. His music has been performed by more than 50 orchestras around the world. In the May 5 SSO concert he will conduct his composition Echoes for Clarinet and Orchestra, featuring his wife, SSO principal clarinetist Kaye Royer.

Tchaikovsky's Fifth, first performed in 1888, is one of his most popular works. Cossack Dance is from the opera Mazeppa and features some of Tchaikovsky's most vigorous and spirited music.

The concert will be held at Central United Church, 194 Avondale Avenue, Stratford, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, May 5. Tickets ($35) are available online (see below) and at Fanfare Books and Anything Grows (Stratford), Stewart Books (St. Marys) and Music (Sebringville).

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