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It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

That's true.

The NYP can program whatever it wants. What it has programmed this season for orchestral concerts consists mostly of an odd combination of standard warhorses, pops concerts, and contemporary composers who are pals of Alan Gilbert - Magnus Lindberg (a former composer in residence), Esa Pekka Salonen (the incoming composer in residence), Thomas Ades, etc.
Even if late 19th and early 20th century romantic music is your main thing, there isn't a whole lot that's intriguing. No Saint-Saens 4th piano concerto, Glazunov 2nd or anything like that. There will be a Bartok 2nd violin concerto, which is an exciting virtuoso tour de force, but not really novel. And Trifonov playing the Rach Rhapsody and three of the four piano concertos (not the less often heard fourth, though).
It's as if the board and Gilbert have reached a compromise: They get the warhorses and pops that they feel will fill the seats, and he gets to do music by his composer friends. Maybe that's part of the reason he's leaving after next season.


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  • That's true. - rbolaw 15:44:39 11/15/15 (0)

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