Late sub: Philly summons Weilerstein
mainAndrés Orozco-Estrada has cancelled next weekend’s concerts due to illness.
So Joshua Weilerstein will make his Philadelphia Orchestra debut.
The program will include Brahms’s Symphony No. 3 and Weber’s Clarinet Concerto No. 2, featuring Principal Clarinet Ricardo Morales, as previously scheduled. Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte for string orchestra, in its Philadelphia Orchestra premiere, replaces Janáček’s Taras Bulba.
Replacing Taras Bulba? Sorry, Ms. Shaw, but I’d be disappointed.
I’m with you on this one, Kyle. I’m assuming that he doesn’t know Taras.
Please explain the connection between this replacement and the character ( Tara’s Bulba) from Gogol’s quasi- historical novella about Ukrainian cossacks fighting the polish invasion.
The Janacek is indeed a loss. It is a stupendous piece. And this would have been a chance to hear the work with the real, large, pipe organ in Verizon Hall. The final few measures could have been tremendous. Alas!
He will replace David Afkham in next two weekends with the Orquesta Nacional de España. Worst than with Taras Bulba: the replacement implies postponing the premiere of a new work by Jesús Rueda, one of the most interesting current Spanish composers.
Ditto. “Taras Bulba” is a great orchestral showpiece that rarely gets performed. It gets overshadowed by the equally – if not more – fabulous “Sinfonietta”. Even that piece deserves more hearings. More Janacek!