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...That orchestra still mangoes to meet its $51/2 million budget, but not without added fundraising and dipping into unreserved capital funds. Season ticket sales have taken a slight fall, because, in the words of an orchestra spokesman, "When the economy is bad, some people hold off renewing." Nonethe less, BSO concerts, normally close to selling out, and radio and television revenue helps take up the slack...
...would rank the Philharmonia as a competitor to the Boston Symphony, or as any threat to its existence. While the BSO has had changeable fortunes in recent years, it still maintains its predominant position, Relations between the two orchestras are good; it was the Philharmonia which introduced Michael Tilson Thomas to Boston, and the soloist in next Sunday's Mozart concerto will be the new BSO first clarinet, Harold Wright...
...perhaps too young to command the positions they hold. Pierre Boulez has reached the stage where he is ready to take over the New York Philharmonic, but Michael Tilson Thomas is, alas, too immature for the arduous duties which. William Steinberg's illnesses have forced on him at the BSO. Seiji Ozawa is starting to change from 'the young conductor' to 'the conductor,' but he has yet to prove himself in the difficult circle of the conductors. Colin Davis is certainly ready to assume his role at the top of his field, and there are many more waiting...
...fortunate that there was an intermission after the concerio, because the version of the Fifth Symphony which followed was too overwhelming to take directly after another work. All of the usual deficiencies of the BSO were there-the winds (especially the clarinets) were abysmal, the horns frequently missed their cues, the unisons never came off in unison-but Rudolf managed to transcend all of the structural defects that have gotten into the orchestra in the past decade. Rudolf has a brilliant sense of pace and timing, and it displayed itself in this work. He skillfully constructed a great performance...
...soloists-Martina Arroyo, Lili Chookasian, Richard Lewis, and Thomas Paul-integrated with the orchestra, and he didn't. The first three movements were unsatisfactory, glossing over all the nuances of score which distinguish this work, and filled with muddy playing. The choral movement failed for lack of rehearal. The BSO recorded the Ninth with Leinsdorf only last year, and it was clearly influenced by this experience. If only he had been given an extra week of work, Bernstein could probably have produced a memorable performance. The fact that he didn't can be traced to the basic fault of this...