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In Reply to: RE: Funny! I kind of agree - I've never been a big fan of Dutoit, although my wife's an admirer posted by Chris from Lafayette on July 15, 2016 at 11:34:50
In that I admire Dutoit as a conductor. I have now seen him with the SFS some 8 times, leading a wide variety of works (including the Planets, but also works like Shostakovich's 10 symphony, the Strauss Don Quixote, Berlioz Harold in Italy and the Damnation of Faust) and except for once when I felt the orchestra let him down badly (very poor Firebird Suite), that all of the concerts have been superb. I look forward to his annual visits to San Francisco.
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My wife just got back from England and, during our catching up on what happened during the time she was away, I casually mentioned that I'd posted here about her admiration for Dutoit. She then became very annoyed and told me in no uncertain terms that she is NOT an admirer of Dutoit! In fact, the last time she saw Dutoit was when James Ehnes was playing with the SF Symphony (the Lalo, I think) and Dutoit conducted the Enigma Variaions on the same concert. "Flat and dull" was her description of that performance. I must have confused her admiration for Ehnes with an admiration for Dutoit! ;-)
Didn't he conduct a Symphonie Fantastique here a few years ago?
We try to see him every year.
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