Are all of the young female composers being mowed down at the gates of orchestras, opera companies, and conservatories?
The orchestra also performed at the gates as prisoners were marched in and out for grueling work assignments.
The orchestra sounded tentative in "No Gates, No White Trenches, Butterfly Effect," by the jazz composer Henry Threadgill, who stipulated that the musicians should improvise: a daunting task for most classical performers.
Occasionally in the mornings as the prisoners marched off to work, and in the evenings when they returned, the orchestra would be at the lager gate encouraging them with upbeat melodies.
Now he takes "The Gate," a multimedia piece including video, vocalists, puppetry and orchestra (with a prominent role for solo percussion), to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, here played in the preferable unadorned original version, culminates in the "Great Gate of Kiev" - birthplace of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's gifted principal conductor, Kirill Karabits.
At the end, Mahler's heavenly gates open to such a width that a gigantic orchestra, a full chorus, a soprano and a mezzo-soprano drive through it with ease.
On the last day of the light frontier display, the balloons will be released into the air as the Staatskapelle Berlin orchestra plays Beethoven's 9th Symphony at the Brandenburg Gate.
The Berlin State Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim played Beethoven's Ninth Symphony "Ode to Joy" in front of the Brandenburg Gate.
There may be a couple of slips here – it was not the German Philharmonic Orchestra but the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra that gave a final concert on 12 April 1945 with the Russians at the gate, and most people agree that the programme ended with Bruckner's fourth symphony, not, as Hastings says, the eighth.
