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Rex’s Review

Brilliance All Around At for instance; though Stokowski was originally Leopold the pianist for a piece deliberately written bearing the
stamp of high romanticism in its sunset years. The great
Stokes, an organist from London! What I’m trying to say
Palm Beach Symphony is that Maestro Schwarz might easily have led one of our Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 brought the concert to a
great five orchestras with a name change. Instead he has close. Written in a grand conciliatory sober mood to please
Kravis Center Concert, Jan. 10 created his own great orchestra, and we are fortunate to Marshall Stalin, who, two years earlier had walked out of
Review by Rex Hearn be in at the beginning. Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Minsk describing
This orchestra gets better and better. Ninety players Yefim Bronfman played the Rachmaninoff Piano it as muddle instead of music. Marked Opus 47 of 1937
with astonishing pedigrees reminded us how great they can Concerto No. 3 after the dazzling Kikimora piece full the 5th Symphony celebrated the 20th anniversary of the
sound. In music by three Russians: Liadov, Rachmaninoff of orchestral brilliance and mayhem which opened the Russian Revolution. Stalin was pleased. Honors were
and Shostakovich they shone like a bright new penny, program. Written in 1908, pianist-composer-conductor poured on Shostakovich, but his greatest international
each section brilliant when their solo time came. Due to Rachmaninoff scored it for his lucrative American debut recognition came with the war symphonies, Numbers 7,
the COVID pandemic I watched them reluctantly “live where in 1909 he played it twice in New York City: 8 and 9, demonstrating his capacity for tragedy and ironic
streamed” in my home, dreading the “sardine tin” sound on Nov. 28 with the New York Symphony and later humor.
effects experienced before in such situations. Happily with the New York Philharmonic under Gustav Mahler. Palm Beach Symphony gave the 5th Symphony a
it was not the case. The sound was delightful. Balance Bronfman’s brilliant technique is unquestionable, and stirring and brilliant reading led by Maestro Schwarz.
favored the lower registers, perhaps. A real bonus was was well received but from my point of view he seemed Their next concert will be on Monday, March 7 at 7:30
watching the conductor, Gerard Schwarz, from his front. to be rushing to get to the end. It is fiendishly difficult p.m. featuring Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 and
Cameras fixed on him and orchestra members. What we to play. Very little emotional feeling came across from Mahler’s Symphony No. 4.
saw and heard was magnificent. Schwarz belongs with
the immortals; his baton technique is impeccable, crisp,
deliberate and masterful. Dale McNulty, of happy memory
did us all a favor by appointing Maestro Schwarz as
music director before he died. In the sometime snobbish
world of conducting, five-syllable names appear to get
the job. Boston’s Kousevitsky; Philadelphia’s Stokowski
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