How do you get to Carnegie Hall? By bus…
NewsFrom the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, on US tour:
So how DO you get to Carnegie Hall?
In our case, on a fleet of coaches from Washington DC. We are all ready and fired up for our first New York concert since 2008, and our first at this address since 1992!
Elgar, Adès and Debussy await – with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and Sheku Kanneh-Mason.
The DC concert was excellent!
They were great last night in the same program at Strathmore. Not a huge crowd, unfortunately (also true for the Baltimore SO and NSO these days). Sheku gets a lot of flak on SD but he’s a fine player. It was nice to hear the Ades piece; refreshing to hear something that reflects an orchestra’s brand. And La Mer was surprisingly good. A lovely glow and seamlessness to their playing. A memorable show.
Wish I could hear this. Bon
voyage, and have a joyous tour!
Makes sense to me. It will take not much more time than going to Reagan National, waiting, then flying to LaGuardia, then waiting for luggage, then loading and riding a bus into Manhattan. Fewer steps and risks of losing luggage or a cancelled flight.
There’s also Amtrak’s Acela – under three hours to NY’s Penn Station but probably too expensive.
I was there last night! What a superb concert! Two exquisite pieces played sublimely surrounding a piece of dreck. (Adès’ ‘Exterminating Angel Symphony’ should be exterminated.)
Really excellent concert at Carnegie last evening. I found Sheku very good with a full burnished tone. Having heard Weilerstein play the Elgar recently it was an interesting contrast in approaches. She more lyrical, he more muscular. Both worked. MGT’s accompaniment was well judged in terms of dynamics and played by an orchestra that knows the piece backwards. SKM gave an arrangement of Komm Susser Tod as an encore accompanied by the first cello desks (4). Lovely. Ades Exterminating Angel ended in a waltz that had me in mind of Ravel. Noisy but really well executed. La Mer had wonderful moments. No encore though a standing ovation. I think they had one prepared…….
I realize I’ve posted this comment before, but meanwhile, several blocks away, the David Geffen Concert Hall at Lincoln Center has opened (revamped for $500 million) and been written about in most major newspapers. But almost nothing about the project has been posted by slippedisc. It’s off this blog’s radar. How come?