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    • Karen Donnelly

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    Blow your horn

    Several weeks ago at a National Arts Centre Orchestra concert that featured Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting and Marc-André Hamelin on piano — yeah, it’s nice to live in Ottawa sometimes — what also stood out during the slow movement of Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F was Karen Donnelly, back in the brass section, playing doleful solo passages with her big, radiant trumpet sound.