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Following a blockbuster lineup of concerts last month,medici.tv offers live concerts in October involving two great American conductors working in France: William Christie and Leonard Slatkin. In season-opening performances at the Théâtre de Caen in France on October 18 at 2pm (EDT), Christie conducts Les Arts Florissants in Francesco Cavalli's opera, La Didone-- the first work by the 17th-century Italian composer to be performed by Christie's renowned ensemble of Baroque specialists (Christie and Les Arts Florissants recently turned New York City on its head with a ravishing revival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music of their acclaimed production of Lully's Atys). On October 20 at 2pm (EDT), medici.tv presents the Orchestre National de Lyon in a program titled "Leonard Slatkin's America" that encompasses music by Aaron Copland, John Williams, Ron Nelson, and the Dominican-born Michel Camilo, who will be the soloist in his own Piano Concerto No. 1

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