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CSO Acting Principal Horn Dan Gingrich warms up before the final rehearsal on Saturday.
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CSO Assistant Principal Trumpet Mark Ridenour gets ready for Saturday's rehearsal in Las Palmas.
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CSO Music Director Riccardo Muti arrives on stage for the final tour rehearsal on Saturday.
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CSO clarinet and bassoon sections are busy rehearsing on Saturday morning.
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Maestro Muti explains a detail to the Orchestra on Saturday during rehearsal.
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CSO Assistant Concertmaster Yuan-Qing Yu caught mid-grin during Saturday morning's rehearsal.
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Maestro Muti answers a question from Principal Trombone Jay Friedman during the rehearsal break.
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CSO President Deborah Rutter talks to reporters before Saturday afternoon's Citizen Musician event.
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A CSO string quintet performs for 200 patients and their families on Saturday at a Las Palmas Health center.
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A health center audience member shows her appreciation at Saturday’s Citizen Musician event.
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Musicians from the Symphony Orchestra of Gran Canaria pose with CSO musicians on Saturday.
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Second Flute Louise Dixon smiles during her pre-concert warm up Saturday night.
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CSO Violin Blair Milton heads to the stage for the start of the final concert in Las Palmas on Saturday night.
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Maestro Muti leads the CSO in Saturday’s performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
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Maestro Muti leads the CSO in Saturday night's program of Beethoven and Berlioz in Las Palmas.
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CSO Trumpet Tage Larsen uses some of the intermission time to check his email backstage.
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The entire CSO Percussion section plays timpani in part of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique on Saturday.
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Maestro Muti and the CSO on stage in Las Palmas with a window to the ocean behind them.
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CSO English Horn Scott Hostetler takes a solo bow after the performance of Symphonie fantastique.
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Maestro Muti takes a bow with the orchestra after their concert on Saturday night.
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Maestro Muti leads a spirited performance of the encore Saturday Night—an overture by Johann Strauss, Jr.
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Maestro Muti signs his greetings and best wishes -in Italian- for the Canary Islands Music Festival.
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CSO Stage Manager Kelly Kerins moves Maestro Muti's music stand off stage to pack it for the trip to Tenerife.
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Wardrobe trunks await tally and loading onto the cargo truck on Saturday night for the trip to Tenerife.
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CSO musicians enjoy a late-night dinner after Saturday's concert in Las Palmas.
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CSO Bass Trombone Charlie Vernon and his wife, Allison, enjoy the stroll back to the hotel on Saturday night.
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Maestro Muti and the CSO on stage in Las Palmas with a window to the ocean behind them.