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Conductor George Pehlivanian returns to Katara audiences with Richard Strauss’ tone poem, An Alpine Symphony, which depicts a day of hiking in music. A brilliant sunset breaks as the walkers set out. They survive a terrifying storm and tense challenges, reaching the summit before descending at nightfall. In the same program the orchestra premieres The Cycle of Life by Rami Al Rajab, who was born in Baghdad in 1978.