In today’s Orange County Register online, my review of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s season opening gala has been made available free to my adoring public.
photo: Mathew Imaging
In today’s Orange County Register online, my review of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s season opening gala has been made available free to my adoring public.
photo: Mathew Imaging
October 8, 2013
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Maestro Dudamel ended the program with the suitable touch, referring to a musical tribute to Disney, both Walt and Lillian. By contrast, I recall that in 2003, Esa-Pekka Salonen closed his concert by playing “How the West Was Won,” which of and by itself seemed somehow a snub to the family whose very existence enabled Disney Hall to be created.
I have a hunch that Salonen, knowing his sensibilities — or a tendency to be avant garde for avant-garde’s sake — considered a piece long associated with Walt Disney (and his movie “Pinocchio”, and, in turn, his company) to be somehow too middle-brow and not sophisticated enough for the occasion.