“One of Martha Gilmer’s fundamental tenets” as CEO of the San Diego Symphony “is to include something new, or even surprising, on every program, even if it’s something subtle,” writes James Chute in Sunday’s (10/4) San Diego Union Tribune. The season-opening program of Strauss’s Overture to ‘Die Fledermaus,’ Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9 and Prokofiev’s Suite from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ appears relatively conventional … but … ‘it isn’t very often you hear [soloist Yuja Wang] do Mozart,’ says Gilmer…. The San Diego Museum of Art persuaded the orchestra to offer a program in collaboration with its exhibit ‘The Art of Music.’ ” Other 2015-16 highlights include John Adams’s Harmonielehre and Beethoven on the same program, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 (“Pathétique”), Judd Greenstein’s Change (a co-commission with the North Carolina Symphony), and The Rite of Spring and Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3, the latter two led by Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, assistant conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. “As for the status of the music director search, Gilmer expects it to take at least two years. ‘It might even take three, but as I’ve said before, if it really works (with someone this year), we’re not going wait.’ ”
Posted October 5, 2015
