A few years ago Carnegie Hall asked three composers — Steven Stucky, Kaija Saariaho and Marc-André Dalbavie — to, in a sense, complete Debussy's project as part of the pianist Emanuel Ax's adventurous Perspectives series.
This orchestra and its music director, Christoph von Dohnanyi, effectively brought down the curtain (if not the roof) on that Carnegie season with a cataclysmic performance of Varese's "Ameriques" in May, and now they raise the curtain on a new one: again adventurous, with Perspectives series allotted to Mr. Pollini, Mr. Barenboim and Peter Serkin, but perhaps a bit less frenetic.
* CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA For those making appointed rounds, the last concert season in New York was exhausting, in large part because of Carnegie Hall's newly adventurous programming, with extensive Perspectives series devoted to Maurizio Pollini, Pierre Boulez and Daniel Barenboim.
But with all due respect to Ms. Falletta and her adventurous orchestra, from an industry perspective — in terms of budget, location, schedule, touring, recording and other factors — the Baltimore Symphony is generally viewed as a major American orchestra while the Buffalo Philharmonic, however fine, is not quite.
She's one of the most adventurous people around and puts a new perspective on amazing destinations around the world.
CAMPING in South Africa was probably our most adventurous journey, from both traveling and cooking perspectives.
Speaking of adventurous musicians, the conductor DAVID ROBERTSON continues his Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall with two programs this week.
From February 19, Shaquille O'Neal will prove to exhibition attendees that size does matter with an adventurous show that aims to highlight the relationship between size, scale and perspective.
With reflections, swiftly moving scenery and an adventurous use of film and projection, he opened classic texts and operas to astonishing multiple perspectives.
Dreams of having a sexual encounter in an adventurous place could be a message to see sex, yourself, and your loved one from an out-of-the-box perspective.
From an events perspective though it definitely seems like we're just shy macro-economically to make a lot of the more adventurous programming work here on a frequent basis, although as the city grows, maybe that will change.
