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...year ago, Ozawa announced he would step down from the BSO in 2002 to take the baton at the Vienna State Opera...
Rogers remembers the characters he met attending Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) concerts in Sanders Theatre...
...setting was certainly unique for the BSO. The tuxedoed musicians were far away from the world of the black tie connoisseurs who frequent Symphony Hall, and instead the audience was refreshingly casual with gleeful five-year-olds running the aisles and jean-clad parents in pursuit. And though the level of musicianship was phenomenal, the BSO's sound was some-what lost in the cavernous community college indoor track stadium...
...drums. The arrangement allowed for Roberts to improvise and push the jazz flavor of the piece, while at the same time challenging the performers to smoothly transition from these solos into the more classical feel of the orchestral sections. Also in the second half of the performance the BSO invited some talented young musicians to perform with them: a children's choir joined the orchestra for Orff's "Carmina Burana" and several talented high school brass players came on stage for Respighi's "Pines of Rome...
Last Friday evening Krystian Zimerman played before an audience that was suspicious of his tendency to cancel at the last minute. In the fall he bailed on an engagement to perform a Rachmaninoff concerto with the BSO and left many ticketholders scowling and cursing. This time around, playing explosively, he left ticketholders smiling and cursing the absence of a second encore...