{"id":379,"date":"2004-03-17T12:07:30","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T17:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2004\/03\/bso_concert_symphony_hall_marc\/"},"modified":"2004-03-17T12:07:30","modified_gmt":"2004-03-17T17:07:30","slug":"bso_concert_symphony_hall_marc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2004\/03\/bso_concert_symphony_hall_marc\/","title":{"rendered":"BSO CONCERT: Symphony Hall, March 16, 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.encyclopedia4u.com\/e\/edo-de-waart.html\" target=\"_blank\">Edo de Waarta<\/A>,\u00a0conductor<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frenchculture.org\/music\/people\/aimard\/bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pierre-Laurent Aimard<\/A>,\u00a0piano<BR><BR><br \/>\nDVORAK Piano Concerto <BR><br \/>\nIVES Thanksgiving and Forefathers&#8217; Day<BR><br \/>\nJANACEK Sinfonietta<BR><BR><br \/>\nIn person, de Waart reminds me of Bernard Haitink, a fellow Dutchman, although his conducting manner is less stodgy. This came out a lot in the Dvorak, which had more orchestral than piano flair. Aimard was so good, however, that it made you wonder why he&#8217;d bothered. A lot of the passagework was tedious, and many of the flourishes worked better as ideas than as actual climaxes. It made me think that Dvorak had a much better handle on orchestration and arrangements than he ever did on pure thematic material. <BR><BR><br \/>\nThe Ives was one of the more beautiful and humorous things I&#8217;ve ever heard, a real orchestral showcase complete with offstage horns. What a character: shilling insurance all day and wreaking havoc at night with his scores.  The Janacek is glorious, a lot of red faces in the wind section, and after a few bars I realized something that made me feel weirdly stupid: this was what ELP ripped off on their first album on a track called &#8220;Knife-Edge,&#8221; I believe without any credit. Janacek&#8217;s original is, or course, far more colorful, charged, and resounding without Greg Lake&#8217;s baleful lyrics &#8212; and delivery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edo de Waarta,\u00a0conductor Pierre-Laurent Aimard,\u00a0piano DVORAK Piano Concerto IVES Thanksgiving and Forefathers&#8217; Day JANACEK Sinfonietta In person, de Waart reminds me of Bernard Haitink, a fellow Dutchman, although his conducting manner is less stodgy. This came out a lot in the Dvorak, which had more orchestral than piano flair. Aimard was so good, however, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}