Gustavo Dudamel, Music Directer of LA Phil

Liee October 23, 2022

Through his dynamic presence on the podium and his tireless advocacy for arts education, Dudamel has introduced classical music to new audiences around the globe and has helped to provide access to the arts for countless people in underserved communities.

Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York 10.22.2022

Liee October 23, 2022

Performers

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla, Principal Guest Conductor

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Cello

Program

ELGAR Cello Concerto in E Minor

THOMAS ADÈS The Exterminating Angel Symphony (NY Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)

DEBUSSY La mer

Note

https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2022/10/22/City-of-Birmingham-Symphony-Orchestra-0800PM

Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla,when she is calm, the music flows as a river does, on its purposeful own, leaving a lingering impression of quiet awe.

There may be no player smaller than she is, but on the podium her arms seem as though they can reach out and touch any musician, no matter how far away. Her gestures are raptly expressive and sweeping, as though she is not so much creating sound but embracing it and those who make it.

Debussy’s sensuous evocations of the play of the waves and the dialogue of the wind and the sea took on an aura of climate change. By the striking final climax, louder than any Debussy I have ever heard, a conductor who is a force of nature met Mother Nature.

-LA Times 10.14.2022

Whole review

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-10-14/commentary-mirga-grazinyta