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for a sublime rendering of the Bartok chestnut. Yeah, Y-Y is extremely mannered and dramatic--- but this music is! A thoroughly enjoyable evening with Ma's tone (the first time I've heard him "live") absolutely rich, sublime, and melodious. He isn't the loudest of players, being a bit overshadowed by the orchestra in several places, but the expressiveness of his cello more than made up for it, especially notable in the brilliant final passage into which Dvorak inserted the heartbreaking slow section (supposedly, the motif was drawn from the favorite song of his recently deceased unrequited love....).
Conductor Prieto was defeated by the other major offering of the evening, Beethoven's Second Symphony: the performance was weak: out-of-balance in the first movement; the last movement w/out the whimsy that is its strongest characteristic.
Finally, I was surprised to see so many females and Asians in the CSO. Vienna, take note!
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I first met Carlos Miguel Prieto around a decade ago, and have met also his father, who is an internationally famous cellist. On one occasion, it was really fun seeing them in concert together, junior conducting while dad played the Shostakovich 1st cello concerto. Carlos Miguel has teamed up with Yo-Yo Ma before. I saw them do the Dvorak CC together around 7 years ago.
I have fond memories of being present in the home of a friend, sitting in his music room, listening to Carlos Miguel on violin, Carlos senior on cello, and his uncle on viola, playing string trios late into the night.
Carlos Miguel earned an engineering degree from Princeton and an MBA from Harvard. But music is in his blood. He conducted the Harvard Symphony while a student there.
Carlos Miguel is the real deal. A better musician than "the dude" and one of the best young conductors around these days.
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
I was checking, and yes, the women and prize winner Koreans and Chinese esp from China origin are coming. The concertmaster is Taiwanese.
Cleveland has a Korean associate concertmaster also. NY Phil has a lot of women and Asians including Alan Gilbert (half Japanese), the music director.
Cleveland also has a Japanese assistant concertmaster (Yoko Moore) and many other Asians (male and female), as well as non-Asian females and a few African-Americans.
It's a long way from when the orchestra was all-white, and Alice Chalifoux (Caucasian) was the only woman in the orchestra. There was no dressing woman for her, so she changed into her concert clothing in her harp trunk. After a concert, she put the harp back in the trunk and loaded it herself into her station wagon to drive home,
Yoko has been there for a long long time, which is a testament to her skill! The new associate concertmaster must be very good, the Korean American player who replaced Ellen dePasquale.Ralph Curry also (African American), you know.
I lived there during Jahja Ling's tenure as resident conductor, and when Michael Stern was asst conductor.
Edits: 05/17/12
Yes, Ralph Curry is African-American--fine player...
The first African-American member of the orchestra was also a cellist, Like Mr. Curry: Donald White:
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2012/02/donald_white_first_black_membe.html
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