In Sunday’s (2/10) Detroit Free Press, Mark Stryker writes, “The Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s 2013-14 season, to be announced today, represents its most adventurous subscription programming under music director Leonard Slatkin since 2009-10. It’s not just that about 22% of the works on the docket have been written since 1975, leaving the fresh scent of contemporary music in the air. Or that there are five world premieres on tap: Two pieces by the University of Michigan’s Bright Sheng, one of America’s most distinctive composers; a major addition to David Del Tredici’s cycle of ‘Alice In Wonderland’-inspired works, this one a one-act opera called ‘Dum Dee Tweedle,’ and pieces by Allan Gilliland and Wang Jie. It’s also especially gratifying that most of the new and recent pieces are large-scale works that define the programs on which they appear. … Slatkin has always programmed with an eye toward balancing old and new and familiar and unfamiliar, and the core repertoire isn’t ignored next season. The season includes two symphonies by Gustav Mahler (Nos. 3 and 4) as well as warhorses like Carl Orff’s ‘Carmina Burana,’ Schubert’s Symphony No. 9, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Scheherazade’ and others.”
Posted February 12, 2013
