In this episode, WBJC's Jonathan Palevsky shares some of the interesting details about Bernstein's Serenade for Violin and Orchestra, inspired by a re-reading of Plato's The Symposium.

This podcast was originally released in the 2017-18 season. Musical samples in BSO podcasts are provided by the Naxos Music Library.

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