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This is where I go for concerts these days. It is a conventional auditorium – now undergoing refurbishment – with a warm acoustic and generally I am perched in the cramped choir seating behind the orchestra. The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is effectively its resident orchestra, Bristol being one of many of the venues it plays in around the West Country, and now under its American Conductor Marin Alsop. Last week’s concert was conducted by Petra Sakari, one of the brilliant Finns who bring so much skill and finesse to contemporary music-making. And the soloist in the Rachmaninoff 2nd was the