Meet Danail Rachev: ASO Guest Conductor

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Danail Rachev is next in line as guest conductor of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. The concerts Friday and Saturday night (Nov. 1-2) feature Scherherazade by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. WBHM’s Michael Krall spoke with Rachev about the work and the conductor’s return to Birmingham…

 

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