"A Night of Afro Dominican Jazz: Honoring and Remembering 'El Comandante' Mario Rivera," which opens the band's 12th season on Oct. 25-26 at Symphony Space, should be a case in point.
His Hyperion recording, taken from the Symphony Hall performances, should be a treat.
In a Chicago Symphony season brochure he is quoted as saying, "I believe the music director should be a leader, a father, a brother, but not a dictator".
Leon Botstein, the musical director of the American Symphony Orchestra in New York and the president of Bard College, said the CBS period should be a "warning" to Mr. Paulson.
The Boston Symphony has long been an ideal Berlioz orchestra, and Mr. Dutoit has always counted Berlioz among his specialties: it should be a good fit.
For an ensemble like the Philadelphia Orchestra, dazzling an audience with Mahler's Second Symphony should be an easy night's work.
503) from the piano before the intermission and then take to the podium to lead the Bruckner Fourth Symphony, a work that should be an opportunity to revel in the sound of this orchestra's gleaming brass.
They should be written for symphony orchestra and chorus, to allow community members to participate in the ceremony.
That their music is a symphony of ill-tempered threats shouldn't be a surprise.
