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Donald Satz wrote:
>This does surprise me. I would think that most concert-goers
>would want greater time-period variety during a concert season.
Actually, the variety of music from within the century is quite great.
However, if you notice from Mr. Johanning's post, most of it is weighted
to late romantic and early 20th century works, many of which are main
stream.
Given the number of works that Stowkowski gave world and American premiers,
I think it's a great idea. One wishes they were more adventurous. However
they have cheated. There are some non subscription programs that feature
non 20th C. works. (i.e., their Halloween program and a pension benefit)
By the way the idea for the season came from Sawallish, with musical
advisor Simon Woods assisting in the programming.
Also, the Philadelphian's have recorded a Dvorak/Liszt album for release
sometime around May that's one of their best recorded in years. I heard
some session outtakes courtesy one of the orchestra members and I was quite
impressed on the naturalness of the recording. In fact, the orchestra
member told me it's one the best examples of how the orchestra actually
sounds in the Academy.
Aloha and Mahalo,
Eric Nagamine
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