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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