Spanish conductor Jaime Martín wows in his first concert as music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, premiering Andrew Norman's 'Begin.'
Outreach seems to be working. LACO’s Royce Hall concerts have not been magnets for students. But this time clusters of young people were taking selfies in front of Royce, finding their seats with the eagerness of attending a pop concert and marvelously whooping it up at the end.
Norman’s eight-minute “Begin” did begin with transparency. A ping of the note D here and toot or bowed D there. The Ds piled up. The rhythm built to a beat, playing off Beethoven’s Seventh, a revolutionary symphony of rhythm. Dappled orchestral colors dazzled and “Begin” began to take off. The clouds then descended with Berlioz’s song cycle. The lovers’ gathering of lily turns dark with death and lament, the specter of a rose as a tomb stuck to a lover’s breast, the cemetery on a moonlit night. Finally a vision of beauty on a far-off shore appeared.
The Beethoven symphony started out heavy and slow. The orchestra sounded twice its size. Martín told the audience he was conducting with Neville Marriner’s baton, given to him by the conductor’s widow shortly after his death. Marriner was the founding conductor of Academy of St Martin in the Fields and LACO. It was also Marriner who encourged his St Martin in the Fields flutist to conduct in the first place. Martín told the audience he had been saving the baton for this performance.
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