Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Musical chairs in Beethoven


Conductor Iván Fischer tried some novel placement of key musicians in performances of Beethoven's Sixth and Ninth symphonies in a March 28 concert with his Budapest Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center. Steve Smith's review in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/arts/music/30ninth.html?ref=music