KBS Symphony to present 'Soul of Russia’ under 90-year-old maestro Eliahu Inbal

The KBS Symphony Orchestra will present “Soul of Russia” on Feb. 28 at 5 p.m. at the Seoul Arts Center, pairing Rachmaninoff’s early 20th-century meditation on mortality with Shostakovich’s mid-century confrontation with historical trauma. On the podium will be Eliahu Inbal, the 90-year-old Israeli conductor whose career spans more than six decades and includes long tenures with major European orchestras such as the Frankfurt Radio Symphony. The program opens with Rachmaninoff’s “The Isle of the