("We're the only show in New York whose orchestra is also its composer," James Morgan, the York's artistic director, told the audience before one recent performance.) The two have fashioned a modern prodigal-son tale in which an 18-year-old named Luke (Joshua Park) rebels against his bland home life in a small town.
Salonen, whose orchestra has been at the forefront of digital innovation in classical music, spoke of his excitement at being involved in the project.
Chicagoans — whose orchestra is No. 5, according to Gramophone — worry that one or two weak links have appeared in their legendary phalanx of brass.
KATE EDMONDS DONNER and ALEX DONNER, whose orchestra played.
The problem may not be unique to Atlanta, but it is far more crucial here than in cities like Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Cincinnati and Minneapolis, whose orchestras are older and more entrenched than this one.
"Life revolved around the downtown, with the post office, the few hotels, the cafés, the biggest parks in whose pavilions... orchestras played pieces by Vivaldi or Strauss at the end of the afternoon," Galán writes, describing the El Salvador that Ellacuría first came to know.
Take, for instance, "the paupers," those misbegotten souls up in the three-tiered balcony who couldn't afford the eye-watering orchestra prices, and in whose direction she promises to glance "in exact proportion to what you have paid".
271), the brilliant work in whose opening bars the composer, as a teenager, broke through to a new structural intimacy between piano and orchestra.
Acting in whose interest?
