What happens when indeterminate music’s “happy accidents” are not so accidental?
The symphony closes out the season with Leonard Bernstein’s comic operetta.
Clarinetists Romie de Guise-Langlois and David Shifrin, occasionally joined by violin and piano, dazzled.
A lovely rendering of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony is unfortunately paired with Bernstein’s brash, ostentatious Age of Anxiety.
The composer’s Time, Place, Action got its West Coast premiere, but stronger pieces by Debussy and Haydn received less attention from the quartet.
Violinist Christian Tetzlaff offers a palate cleanser of Webern to breakup his performace of the complete Brahms violin sonatas.
The symphony, with assistance from choristers, performed the Rachmaninoff masterpiece, which is based off the poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
The performance had all the pageantry one would expect from the classic tale, but little choreography.
The group’s May 1 concert consisted of symphonies and "party tricks."
The early music group introduced a young cello soloist and played a sprightly reading of a Bach orchestral suite.
