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…arts & entertainment Premiere Performances The Stephen Gottlieb Music Series presents the Haifa Symphony — embarking on a first tour of the U.S. — at the Berman. Elizabeth Applebaum I Special to the Jewish News n the late 1800s, a little city called Haifa was welcoming its first modern wave of Jewish immigrants, coming from Romania. In Russia in 1897, the first sym- phony by a young composer named Sergei Rachmaninoff had its premiere. Crit...…
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