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In Reply to: And to learn more about him than the L.A. Times provides... posted by clarkjohnsen on April 9, 2007 at 12:22:27:
I don't want ESP to leave his postion or once he's done so to be the MD somewhere else (just so he's free to conduct here a bunch) but, in my limited view, it seems that a band (and city) that could REALLY use him is the NYPDon't piss on my shoe and tell me it's raining.
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And you're right about NY -- but does EPS need the grief?clark
and under Maazel, they've tight-as-can-be. Perhaps their leadership has lacked a little -- but just a little -- programming imagination. You've actually heard a lot of performances of the recent NYP you haven't like?
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but my father's been going regularly for 50 years and the feedback I get from him is that there's a lack of spark... that they could use the vitality and (to steal your word) imagination of a Salonen.It was only a few months ago that the NY Times wrote a piece about how the balance of power had shifted and the L.A. Phil had overtaken the NY Phil in many important parameters so I was going by that as well (they declared the L.A Phil the best in the country but that's too much of a subjective thing to declare IMO). Plus attendance is down in NY and way up in L.A.... of course WDCH is a factor there.
Don't piss on my shoe and tell me it's raining.
I wouldn't want to draw a straightline conclusion between orchestra/conductor quality and audience attendence. Baltimore is struggling also, and their leadership and execution (and programming) is very strong (at least through Temirkanov last year). LA has enormous population density to assist it -- don't laugh, it matters. I guess my point about NY is this: Get the hottest young conductor you can find...I'm not sure it will matter. The subscribers want their warhorses, and the young new audiences don't know what they want (or even if they want it). It may not matter who the chef is. LA is different: folks like young and new in LA (or so it seems). So, if the point is "they need radical change in NY just BECAUSE they need radical change" I agree. Spark notwithstanding, Maazel can be AWFULLY impressive on any given night with the NYP.
All good points. I wasn't trying to knock Maazel just saying (without really saying) they could use an infusion of vitality - or as you said a radical change - as an organization and that someone like Salonen could be just what the doctor ordered... of course it would have to be a Salonen who had the desire and energy to do it.
Don't piss on my shoe and tell me it's raining.
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