When Alexander Hersh performs with the Dallas Chamber Symphony at Moody Performance Hall on Nov. 11, the Chicago-based cellist will be following in his family’s footsteps. His great-grandparents played in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra several decades ago. His great-grandfather, Ralph Hersh, was the orchestra’s principal violist and his great-grandmother played violin.

David Shifrin was the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s principal clarinetist when Hersh’s great-grandparents were in Dallas, and he remembers them fondly.

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“Apparently, my great-grandparents were known for throwing parties within the Dallas Symphony and David Shifrin met his first wife, thanks to them at one of their iconic Dallas Symphony parties,” Hersh said.

Hersh is a fourth-g

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