Croatian Guitarist Leads WSO's Season Opener

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Guitarist Ana Vidovic is waging the war fought by every young soloist trying to establish a performing career.

And Kypros Markou, music director of the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra, is glad to giver her a battlefield.

"She is going to me a major, major, major talent," he says of the Croatian soloist set to perform at Saturday's concert. "Soon."

Vidovic, 25, will be coming from Baltimore to perform in the ensemble's season opener. She will be doing a work from the mid- 1930s that she and Markou agree blends classical style with modern beauty -- and, perhaps, is a bit underplayed.

"I'm pretty familiar with it," Vidovic says of the first …