{"id":4470,"date":"2010-04-18T23:33:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T06:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=4470"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:20:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:20:44","slug":"kalmar-gets-positive-reviews-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/18\/kalmar-gets-positive-reviews-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"kalmar gets positive reviews in chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carlos Kalmar - Photo: Oregon Symphony<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

John Von Rhein – Chicago Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The standard orchestral fare \u2014 Spanish and French works written for the dance or later appropriated for the ballet \u2014 that surrounded the Cerrudo premiere didn’t promise much. But Kalmar, who was making his subscription series debut as a replacement for Esa-Pekka Salonen<\/a> (who canceled for personal reasons), lifted them beyond the ordinary.<\/p>\n

The Grant Park<\/a> Music Festival’s principal conductor brought vivacity and color to three dances from Falla’s “El Amor Brujo.”<\/p>\n

The sense of storybook fantasy in Ravel’s complete “Mother Goose” was heightened by the precision of detail as well as the shimmering refinement supplied by the woodwinds in particular. Voluptuousness and menace combined to potent effect in the same composer’s “La Valse,” that richly colored portrait of prewar Vienna on the brink of cataclysm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Andrew Patner – Chicago Sun-Times<\/em><\/a> & The View From Here<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

This is also an unusual week because an otherwise familiar Chicago podium figure was making his CSO subscription concerts debut. \u00a0Grant Park Music Festival principal conductor Carlos Kalmar was a last-minute substitute for Finland\u2019s Esa-Pekka Salonen, who withdrew from these concerts for undisclosed personal reasons. \u00a0Kalmar, celebrating his 10th season at Grant Park this summer, is also music director of the Oregon Symphony Orchestra and took up the set program without changes. \u00a0The Three Dances from Falla\u2019s El amor brujo<\/em> (1915-1916) found the Uruguayan-born conductor at home rhythmically and harmonically. \u00a0Perhaps it was a general lessening of tension after the excitement of the dance work, but the complete Mother Goose<\/em> ballet (1910-11) seemed slow going, albeit with beautiful solos from many section leaders. \u00a0The same composer\u2019s La valse <\/em>(1919-20) clearly speaks to Kalmar\u2019s Viennese roots and training; he knows this work should not sound too \u201cFrench.\u201d \u00a0But the apocalypse came a bit early. \u00a0If you get going too quickly in this piece, all you can do is then go even faster, and that\u2019s not its or Ravel\u2019s point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

UPDATE: A Single Delight<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Today was the last night for the concert with Carlos Kalmar conducting Falla\u2019s Three Dances from El Amor Brujo<\/em> and Ravel\u2019s Mother Goose<\/em> and La Valse<\/em>, plus a special performance by Deep Down Dos<\/em> \u2013 a dance group, who danced to Mason Bates\u2019 Music from Underground Spaces<\/em>. As usual, the CSO orchestra was fantastic: Falla\u2019s pieces were lively with strong basses, while Ravel\u2019s Mother Goose<\/em> was everything a child could hope for \u2013 with the celesta tinkling away for that \u201cmagical\u201d, fairy-tale feel, and the strings for all the romance found between imaginary princes and princesses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Von Rhein – Chicago Tribune The standard orchestral fare \u2014 Spanish and French works written for the dance or later appropriated for the ballet \u2014 that surrounded the Cerrudo premiere didn’t promise much. 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