Still, there is something for everybody, including the symphony lover, in the seasons Mr. Lockwood puts together.
Thanks to the People's Symphony Concerts series, music lovers can hear several of the works Mr. Ohlsson played at Carnegie Hall, at very affordable prices, on Sunday afternoon at Town Hall.
Danced to the andante elegiaco from Tchaikovsky's 3rd Symphony - an extended lover's sigh - this is an intense distillation of St Petersburg classicism, with fleeting quotes from Swan Lake and other ballets.
The music is also acutely personal to composer Michael Nyman: the score he re-used (it had become part of the soundtrack for the Peter Greenaway movie The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover) for Symphony No. 11: Hillsborough Memorial is taken from work he was recording on the afternoon of the tragedy.
Taneyev's songs, chamber music and Fourth Symphony get regular hearings, and lovers of Russian opera have always been aware of "Oresteia".
The incidence of musical illiteracy in symphony offices, staffed with music lovers and record collectors, is high.
Natalie was an intrepid family photographer, a lover of opera and symphony, and an avid studio glass collector with her husband Ben.
(Woolfe) ★ Cleveland Orchestra (Wednesday and Thursday) It is a full week at Carnegie for lovers of great American symphonies, with the Philadelphia Orchestra on Friday and the dazzling Cleveland ensemble's two-concert stand a few nights later.
Since then, they have transformed from a small group of classical music lovers to a highly rated symphony orchestra.
Coasting home into my village, it occurs to me that the Alps -- which arc from Vienna to Marseilles -- are a symphony of experiences that can endlessly delight lovers of culture, history, and nature.
