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Description: The finale for this year's Lucerne Festival in Summer couldn't be more colourful. Gustavo Dudamel and the Vienna Philharmonic will frame their concluding concert with the sound of drums. Rossini's fizzy Overture to "The Thieving Magpie" begins with a snare drum solo, while Ravel's famous "Boléro" is based on a metrical pattern played unrelentingly by this instrument, which builds into a flagrantly erotic wave of energy.