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Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons is the music we are often tortured with while on hold to speak to a bank or utility company.

Wind players. Who needs them? Not Lancaster Symphony Orchestra. At least, not this weekend. The symphony opened an intriguing all-strings series Friday with a sold-out concert at the Fulton Opera ...