Quoting Chris Mullins <[log in to unmask]>:
>HOWEVER - on 2/14 I returned to Disney Hall for Gergeiv leading the LA
>Phil in a rare Rimsky-Korsakov "opener" - the tuneful march "Dubinushka,"
>Prokofiev's Symphony 7, and "Pictures at an Exhibition." This concert
>also ended with a wild standing ovation that went on for minutes, and
>I stayed, but there was to be no encore. I suppose Gergiev had had no
>time to prepare one with the Phil. A shame.
Might have something to do with musician's union regulations if the
concert goes over a prescribed time. I've attended LA Phil concerts for
about five or six years and have never heard an encore from them. Another
recent case at Disney Hall was Rattle/Berlin Phil in a Bartok/Schubert
program. The audience went justifiably bat-guano for an evening that
won't soon be forgotten. Many callbacks for Rattle, wild appreciation
of the sections he brought out for recognition. No encore.
Ravi Narasimhan
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