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22 September 2023

Hindoyan and the RLPO start the season with

Americana and Rachmaninov

By Peter Connors, 22 September 2023
Domingo Hindoyan launched his third season as Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra with an exuberant sold-out concert of American music. Liverpool
audiences have taken Hindoyan to their hearts and he has reciprocated with some superb
music making.

Domingo Hindoyan
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Leonard Bernstein took the dance sections of West Side Story out of the theatre and
transformed them into a showpiece for large orchestra in his Symphonic Dances. He
retained the swagger of the musical down to the finger-clicking and shouts of “mambo” but
shaped the dances into a new coherent, indeed symphonic, whole. Hindoyan and the
RLPO gave a bravura performance which set us up for a remarkable evening.