AMERICAN conductor Franz Anton Krager returns to Stratford next week to lead the Orchestra of the Swan in its first concert of 2001.

The young conductor, who made his debut with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, appeared with the Swan musicians last year and will join the orchestra for the Romantic Strings programme next Wednesday, which will include the Grieg Holberg Suite and Dvorak's Serenade for Strings.

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