Unfamiliarity presumably accounted for a few isolated smudges, but on the whole the orchestra mastered this brilliant, diffuse and fitful music.
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA "American Masters," Michael Morgan, conductor; Anne-Marie McDermott, piano.
The orchestra was mastering Adams's tricky textures, but, as the afternoon went on, their energy waned.
Jiro as the chef is conducting an orchestra of masters, bringing out the best of what his vendors can provide by balancing them perfectly.
It also includes a 14-piece orchestra and a master of ceremonies, a woman with a distinct high-pitched North Korean accent.
Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay, the orchestra's concert master, gave his violin solos a lilting quality that made them seem like pages slotted into the philosophical tone-poem from the score of some carefree Viennese operetta.
Only the Royal Opera House could lose one star (the indisposed Dmitri Hvorostovsky) and find three others – well, five actually since Antonio Pappano, the evening's inspired accompanist, brought with him his orchestra's concert master, Vasko Vassilev, sweetly serenading us with Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov in so homespun a manner as to turn a public concert into a private soiree.
David Zinman conducts the orchestra in all the master's symphonies except the Fifth (say, what?), the Sixth (presented earlier in the season) and the Ninth, interspersed with 20th-century concertos of sorts by Stravinsky, Barber and Karl Amadeus Hartmann.
My daughter has a strong résumé: 4.0, many A.P. classes, two varsity sports for four years each, assistant concert master in orchestra, community service, glowing letters of recommendation and strong essays.
Spanish Style The music of Spain, with Spain's national orchestra and a Spanish master of the classical guitar, will be emphasized in the Great Performers concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at Avery Fisher Hall.
October 16 2015 A new version of Nico Muhly's dazzling concerto for electric violin (played by Tracey Silverman, the instrument's current master) and orchestra, described by the composer as a musicalization of "the superstitious practice of mapping the sky," is the centerpiece of Leon Botstein's latest program.
