Gathering Note

Month: October 2011

  • Songs on the death of children

    Next weekend Morlot takes a stab at his first Mahler with the Seattle Symphony. For this he chose Kindertotenlieder, one of Mahler’s sublime song cycles. So far I am loving Morlot’s choices. He isn’t going for typical anything.

  • Igor meets Edgard

    Ludovic Morlot impressed again this week with a program that featured the smartly chosen Ameriques of Edgard Varese and Stravinsky’s classic ballet the Rite of Spring. As Morlot pointed out in the open rehearsal earlier in the week — Varese is to Stravinsky the way Beethoven is to Haydn. Ameriques’s homage to the Rite is…