Please note that the interval in this concert will come after the Tchaikovsky symphony.

The Tchaikovsky symphony, his first, is known to many music lovers but still "unknown" enough to arrive with a certain freshness.

The first hour tells how a performance of a major work like the Tchaikovsky symphony is prepared; the second presents a complete performance recorded live.

He may still not be everyone's ideal for shaping a Verdian line or wringing passion from a Tchaikovsky symphony.

American audiences don't hear the early Tchaikovsky symphonies often, nor do American conductors typically show much affinity for them.

Although the accompaniment for "Flight Vision" is a Tchaikovsky symphony, the dance's setting is the subway.

There is nothing like hearing a repertory staple like the Tchaikovsky symphony performed by gifted, enthusiastic and unjaded young musicians.

As the composer Milton Babbitt once said, a recording of a Tchaikovsky symphony is a piece of electronic music.

Several scenes of Mr. Thomas and his orchestra during a children's concert presentation of the Tchaikovsky symphony are inspiring.

"He basically won't do the Tchaikovsky Symphonies 1, 2 and 3," Mr. Gidwitz said.