In Monday’s Washington Post, I review the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s very fine performance of the “Kaddish” Symphony. I have some reservations about Marin Alsop, but boy can she conduct Bernstein. (And Claire Bloom did an amazing job bringing across an allegedly unperformable text.)
Leonard Bernstein in 1959, a few years before he wrote the “Kaddish” symphony. (AP Photo/File)
(AP Photo/File - AP)
Bernstein’s influence is clearly discernible in the conducting of his student Marin Alsop. (Photo by Dean Alexaner) (Courtesy of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra)
(Dean Alexaner - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra)
Charles T. Downey reviewed the opening concert of the Folger Consort’s season, which focuses on five major European cities; this concert set its sights on London.
And an obituary appeared of Fred Begun, who was the National Symphony Orchestra’s principal timpanist for nearly 50 years.
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