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All-Star Orchestra
The Pines of Rome, and the Restless Sea
Season 5
Episode 502
Ottorino Respighi’s great orchestral showpiece “The Pines of Rome” unites nature with the history of Rome, “the Eternal City,” in thrilling tone-pictures. Claude Debussy’s impressionist masterpiece La Mer (“The Sea”) portrays the ever-changing sea in its many moods and colors.
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