Led by maestro Roy Gussman, the Monmouth Symphony Orchestra will perform an all-Beethoven program 3 p.m. Sunday, May 18 at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank. A highlight of the evening promises to be the Piano Concerto No. 4 with Vladislav Kovalsky, director of Red Bank's Monmouth Conservatory, as soloist. "This is a concerto I feel in my bones," Gussman said in a recent interview. "For me, it's my favorite concerto of all time. "Just the way the thing opens," he enthused. "Every time you do it, it takes your breath away." The opening is, indeed, breathtaking. It is one of those moments that were Ludwig van...
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