Dudamel gets 7-minute ovation; NY Times calls it bland
OrchestrasThe Associated Press reports a 7-minute standing ovation for Gustavo Dudamel in David Geffen Hall at the end of Mahler’s ninth symphony.
Zachary Woolfe reviewed the concert at great length in the New York Times. Here’s a taster:
‘Dudamel achieved in this sprawling, complex and bracing score a kind of casualness. He gave a sense of this as just another piece….
‘Missing from the evening was a certain degree of personality and depth… it’s not clear that love-fest is the right mood for much of Mahler’s Ninth.’
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