John Morris Russell, conductor of the famed Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, opens the National Orchestral Institute with a high-energy concert of audience favorites, including Saint-Saens’s Introduction & Rondo capriccioso featuring UMD faculty artist James Stern on violin.

The program also includes Bernstein’s Candide Overture, Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances, Dvořák’s Carnival Overture and much more. Surely a program you don’t want to miss!