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With vision and passion, great things can happen—add to that some notes and instruments and you have something wonderfully magical on your hands. Dr. Laurence Harvin’s passion for music and his vision for sharing with a large audience came together in 1981 with a small group of citizens in the town of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. No story can be told without telling how it began, and so we honor the creator of the Murfreesboro Symphony Orchestra as we begin our 35th season.

It was a difficult decade in Romania during the 1980’s. Despite the war-torn land there, beautiful music was still being made and shared. It was 1983 when Stefan Petrescu and Daniel Nedelcu first came to the United States, touring with the Romanian Symphony. It was on their second tour, in 1989, that the two men chose to risk it all, asking to defect and to make the United States their home. They could not communicate in the English language, but as is commonly understood about music–it transcends many language barriers.

The Murfreesboro Symphony Orchestra is made up of talented musicians from many areas of life and many areas of the world. The musicians love playing and are dedicated to spending numerous hours practicing to ensure performances to delight the listener. Always remembering that their job is to translate the literature into a language the rest of us can understand, many of the musicians have remained committed to this orchestra for a very long time.