Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy’s ‘Memoria’ was an apt opener, but much else was unsatisfying.
, was an odd assortment of music. Ravel was represented as both composer and arranger . But Percy Grainger’s “Pastoral,” from his suiteThe Grainger sometimes suggests a tradition of 20th-century English pieces evoking William Blake’s green and pleasant land. Things soon get more complicated, with seemingly random overlaps of textures and gestures. Tuned percussion is prominent, as is a piano. Well, there it was.
At brief moments in the Ravel and Ravel-Mussorgsky, New reduced her gestures to manageable dimensions. But for the most part she put on a balletic display of daunting athleticism. There were great sweeps of arms, bold twists and crouches of torso. What there wasn’t — crucially, in the Spanish evocations — was clarity and precision.
The “impressionist” label is a misnomer in music that calls for real rhythmic focus and finesse. Impressionist conducting is just what an orchestraneed here. From the audience, it was especially distracting to see enormous motions in really quiet music. And how did the program page get printed without the movements of the, musicians rarely looked at New, likely for fear of being confused. Both pieces often seemed to go on auto-pilot, and there were precarious moments in both.
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