I was prompted, after a comment by fellow arts blogger James Bash, to look in the Los Angeles Times archives for the text of the review of the Oregon Symphony’s prior debut, that being at the Hollywood Bowl, which took place in September 1992. Written by Times critic Daniel Cariaga, it was quite different
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For those of you who were at our Saturday evening concert of this past week’s subscription series may recall a humerous quote that James DePreist cited about music: “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture”. He didn’t give a source, and many of you may have thought that this was his own invention. Well,
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Whenever you get a guest conductor back after a year’s absence or more, it’s often a good time to take stock of where the orchestra is at artistically, where the guest conductor is artistically, and what sort of trends you can divine from these observations. When the guest conductor is a former music director, in
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