In Friday’s (10/26) Detroit Free Press, Mark Stryker writes, “The Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s previously scheduled appearance at Carnegie Hall on May 10, was going to be its first concert in the hallowed Manhattan temple in 17 years. Now, suddenly, it will be the DSO’s second concert at Carnegie Hall in 24 hours. Thanks to a cancellation by the Oregon Symphony, the DSO and music director Leonard Slatkin have been invited to play a second concert—and an entirely different program of music—on May 9 as part of the 2013 Spring for Music. … For the DSO, the chance to perform on back-to-back nights in the most prestigious venue in New York offers the ensemble an even greater platform to show off its artistic strengths and the progress it has made in rebuilding after the six-month strike in 2010-11 … In stepping in for the Oregon Symphony, which pulled out of the festival due to financial problems, the DSO will be adopting the bulk of that orchestra’s previously scheduled program, including Kurt Weill’s little-heard ballet ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ (1933) and Ravel’s kaleidoscopic ‘La Valse.’ Slatkin will also lead the orchestra through two scores by Rachmaninoff, ‘Caprice Bohemien’ and ‘The Isle of the Dead.’ … On May 10, Slatkin and the DSO will perform all four symphonies of the American iconoclast Charles Ives, a demanding marathon concert projected to last three hours.”
Posted October 26, 2012
