“Iolanta” shared its premiere, in December of 1892, with a ballet you may have heard of, “The Nutcracker.” Of Tchaikovsky’s music, that score’s only competitor as a hatcher of earworms is “The 1812 ...

plays the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Waco Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday. It’s a standard in the violin repertoire, but don’t expect the routine, advised WSO Music Director Lawrence Loh.