Do you secretly prefer Wagner's
The Nibelung's Ring without
singers, but would like something longer than the traditional concert
chunks? The Redwood Symphony offers Lorin Maazel's "symphonic synthesis"
of the whole
Ring cycle: It's like an hour-long Richard
Strauss tone poem, except it's by Wagner. Also on the program:
Rachmaninov's almost equally epic
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, with pianist Daniel Glover. Eric Kujawsky conducts.