Colorado Public Radio previews the the Boulder Symphony’s upcoming performance, tackling Tchaikovsky's dramatic Symphony No. 4 and Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini — performed by a very special guest. 

Shangru Du is from Wuhan, China, he is the 2022 International Keyboard Odyssiad & Festival Competition winner, who just graduated from Julliard.  

Devin Patrick Hughes, the music director and conductor of the Boulder Symphony, says he selected Tchaikovsky’s Fourth for the program as a great example of the composer's work.

"Tchaikovsky's Four is a great masterwork with so many kind of layers emotionally, historically and just from a performance standpoint,” Hughes said. “I think Tchaikovsky knows how to take the listener on an emotional rollercoaster because that's the life that Tchaikovsky lived.”