No Dudamania in San Francisco: Dudamel leads the LA Philharmonic in Bernstein and Tchaikovsky
The Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, Conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Piano
Davies Hall, San Francisco
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Bernstein, Symphony No. 2, “The Age of Anxiety”
Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 in B-minor, "Pathétique"
There is a sound you sometimes hear after midnight, high up in Manhattan. It comes from maybe thirty blocks away. Very faint. In the stillness of your mind, you know it is a lonely taxi horn dancing with the doppler effect. But in the small hours of the city, you wonder who might be riding home amongst sleeping millions, and how boozily, and what love affairs or personal dramas are about to begin or end. New York is like that. In its darkness, taxis are crickets, and you listen.
