Concert Report
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I attended the Pacific Symphony Orchestra's classical concert series "Beethoven's Fifth", conducted by Carl St.Clair, the internationally renowned American conductor, on Thursday, January 31, 2001 in the Segerstrom Hall (Orange County Performing Arts Center). The first half of the concert was introduced by a short and lively movement Rondo in D major of Mozart, and continued with Bernstein's Symphony No. 2. The second half of the concert was devoted to the four-movement work, Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor. The concert was scheduled to begin at 8:00 p.m., but I arrived at the hall one hour earlier for the preview. The hall was much more crowded than I expected...