Many people, both within the Oregon Symphony ‘family’ and in the public at large have commented both publicly and privately that they were mystified by a paragraph in the otherwise glowing review of the Oregon Symphony’s Carnegie Hall debut in today’s New York Times. Music critic Allan Kozinn wrote the following: The orchestra was
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As we were getting ready to deplane in Portland, people were whipping out their various smart devices, and the news came quickly: the New York Times review was an unabashed rave. Here it is, written by Allan Kozinn, in its entirety: It is hard to believe that the Oregon Symphony had never performed in
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Needless to say, I overslept. There was a lovely and generous bagel and lox breakfast scheduled at the Strand bookstore, an NYC institution, which is owned by the wife of Senator Ron Wyden, Nancy Bass. But, I missed it. After the last massive chord of the RVW Fourth Symphony faded into the fabled expanse
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We played our first of three concerts in Portland with our emergency replacement conductor, the British conductor Michael Francis, last night, and in spite of the good amount of buzz that his nascent career has gotten up to this point, he was still impressive. Rather than give a blow-by-blow account of the concert, I’d rather
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