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“Major credit clearly went to conductor Chan, who must be some kind of natural at this ... it sounded like a kinder, gentler Toscanini was running the show”
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“Major credit clearly went to conductor Chan, who must be some kind of natural at this ... it sounded like a kinder, gentler Toscanini was running the show”
I’m proud to be an Artistic Partner for Mainly Mozart's upcoming Festival of Orchestras which will bring together musicians of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony in February, and of the MET Orchestra and the National Symphony in April.
The repertoire for string octet is small but extraordinarily rich. I had the opportunity recently to record the mercurial Shostakovich and the glorious Mendelssohn under the aegis of the Montclair Orchestra at historic Van Vleck House and Gardens in Montclair.
I'm definitely missing live music and playing together with colleagues. And if you're like me, you're tired of seeing musicians in separate little boxes on videos. This fun video is a nod to live chamber music!
In a non-Covid world, I would have had the amazing privilege of conducting the renowned Boston Pops Orchestra last weekend as part of my Harvard Class of 1995’s 25th Reunion; this video of the “White Swan” scene from Act II of Swan Lake was conceived as a way to recreate the event at Symphony Hall that never was.
