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Berkeley Symphony's season opener this Thursday, October 13, 7 p/ m., featuring Erich Korngold's Violin Concerto (1945) with soloist Philippe Quint, the world premire of Berkeley composer Paul Dresher's Crazy Eights and Fractured symmetries and Stravinsky's Petrushka (1910-11, revised 1947) at Zellerbach Hall on the UC campus (near Telegraph Avenue and Bancroft Way), will be conducted by Edwin Outwater of the San Francisco and Ontario's Kitchener-Waterloo Symphonies.  

Berkeley Symphony Music Director Joana Carneiro withdrew from the concert late last month, citing personal reasons. 

Tickets: $15-$74; $7 student rush ticket one hour prior to performance. www.berkeleysymphony.org; 841-2800, extension 1.