Donald Satz ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Steve Schwartz provided us the list of works to be performed this season
>by the Louisiana Philharmonic.  It doesn't look adventurous at all.  I
>could only count 3 of the 37 works as being in the obscure category; that's
>a loser.  Also, over 20 of them fall into the romantic-era.  Totally
>missing are any works from the Baroque period or earlier,

This is not a fair accusation.  Modern symphony orchestras tend to get
their knuckles rapped when they stray into period-performance territory.

>and there are no modernist works at all.

This OTOH is 100% fair.

Deryk Barker
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