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Saturday, December 7th, 2024 at 8:00pm, in an encore broadcast, the youngest-ever Gold Medalist at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition is the soloist in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, lead by Tugan Sokhiev.
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