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Taylor Music Center, which will be bedecked in holiday decorations for the first time since a two-year transformational expansion and renovation.Double reed instruments take the spotlight in a chamber music concert at The Sheldon, December 4, curated by oboist Xiomara Mass and bassoonist Julia Paine<\/p>\n<p>Frequent guest conductor John Storg\u00e5rds leads the first SLSO performances of Clara Wieck Schumann\u2019s Three Romances, Haydn\u2019s Cello Concerto in C major with Kian Soltani in his SLSO debut, and Dmitri Shostakovich\u2019s Symphony No. 15, December 5-6<\/p>\n<p>Conductor Nicholas McGegan leads the orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Chorus, and soloists Sherezade Panthaki, Sara Couden, John Matthew Myers, and Philippe Sly in G.F. 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