Starting Friday: Music director of the Minnesota Orchestra from 1986 to 1995, globetrotting conductor Edo de Waart now makes his home in Wisconsin, where he takes up a new job with the Milwaukee Symphony in the fall. Also an incoming artistic partner of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, De Waart returns to Orchestra Hall this week and next with two generous programs that adhere to the "overture/concerto/big symphony" model: Shostakovich/Mozart/Elgar (Symphony No. 1) and Schumann-Shostakovich-Dvorak ("New World"). The soloists, both Minnesota Orchestra principals, are bassoonist John Miller Jr. (in Mozart) and cellist Anthony Ross (in Shostakovich). (Program One: 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Program Two: 11 a.m. May 14, 8 p.m. May 15-16, 2 p.m. May 17. $25-$83. Orchestra Hall, 11th St. and Nicollet Mall, Mpls. 612-371-5656 or www.minnesotaorchestra.org.)
LARRY FUCHSBERG
