One of the most interesting concerts in the classical music season was held last week at Carnegie Hall. Rafael Pycheon, a new star in Europe, has led to Schubert and some of the same collage, the main traum.
Bariton's Christian Gelhera was appearing in the bruise song “derdoppelgänger”. As the evening approached, Soprano -in fans sang “Nahito Eun Trium” with a breathtaking purity. Performance casts rare spells.
It was the first time that a 40 -year -old Picon had led in New York. Young Maestro, who is in high demand, may expect to choose such important debuts while visiting Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic, or in a great tour. However, Piccheon led the main traum in an orchestra in St. Luc, a very famous local organization, and celebrates its 50th anniversary this season.
Not very famous, but more open. In an interview a few days after the concert, Picon said he had consulted Pablo Helas Casad, the main conductor of St. Luc from 2011 to 2017, before the collaboration agreed.
“The most important thing I told me is that this orchestra is everyday. When they decide to start a project, they are completely dedicated. Musicers are free. I want to create an experiment space. “
Without the rigid week of the week of the week of the Philharmonic and other major orchestras, St. Luc has a versatility to undertake abnormal ideas like picon. Core musicians, including some of the best free lancers in New York, have a lifetime employment, but the ensemble schedule has enough time in other commitments. Benjamin Bowman, a concert master of Carnegie's “Main Trium”, is also a concert master of the Met Orchestra.
St. Luc provides players with an attractive combination of security and adventure, and is busy with various experiences in the city.
“Because of the flexibility of the contract with the player, you can do all the projects,” said Jameslow, the president and executive director of St. Rark, who started his career as an orchestra.
These projects cover both high and low cultures. St. Luc is the only group with a regular series in all three spaces of carnegie. (“MEIN TRAUM” was the 439th appearance in the hall, one week later, “Cadish” performance of “Cadish” symphony.)
The orchestra is a pit band where the Paul Taylor Dance Company lives every year at the Lincoln Center. Frequently cooperating with MastervoiceS Chorus, we will introduce modern music events at Dimenna Center for Classy Music, a rehearsal near Hudson yards and in the management hometown.
These are presentations acclaimed in St. Luke's advertising. However, the orchestra earns millions of dollars every year, earn one -fifth of the revenue, and is known for business as a fee engagement. Star. St. Luc has a five -night stand where a movie is shown in the radio city music hall and plays the score of “Road of the Ring: Return of the King”. Picon's remix in the early 19th century.
Alexander Fortes, a violinist of St. Luc, a member of the Orchestra Board of Directors, states: “If you deal with everything with the same strength as given to a big Schubert project, it will suddenly be exciting and valuable, all of us will be better musicians.”
The orchestra is named from the St. Luke Church in the Gringe Village field. There, the first indoor concert was held in 1974. A few years later, a few years after the start of summer residency in Katuna Karamoa, it grew on a symphonic scale. , New York, it continues today.
Membership three -layer systems came from those intimate origin. There is still a core chamber ensemble in St. Luke, which is called an orchestra (grown to include about 65 terminal jobs), and about 50-60 people who can call when they need more power. There is the third group of players.
Diversity and flexibility, which were part of the DNA of St. Luka, and all the “Lord of the Ring” -style money makers, “the orchestra indicates a specific ambiguity of the image and the identity to the world. Like James R. Ostretch in the New York Times.
ROE and the organization have tried to counter their perceptions for the past decade to be considered closer programming. (MEIN TRAUM is a typical example.) Since the fee engagement market is softer, St. Luc focuses on creating more proportions of its own works. Increase the existence of carnegies, lead emerging artists through the composition research institute, and provide more. Performance at the Dimenna Center.
Dimenna, a $ 37 million project implemented by Marianne C. Lockwood and Katy Clark in 2011, was a transformational signal for the orchestra's ambition.
“The 50 -year -old is a very large milestone for the orchestra that began unofficially as us as us,” Law said. “Now we want to create an organization that surpasses us.”
Under his leadership, the orchestra budget was more than doubled and $ 10 million. The donation was almost doubled, $ 23 million. The last contract with a musician -five years, not a contract of the past three years, but was signed after a single negotiation session.
It is important to note that St. Luke's debut, which introduces St. Luke's New York's debut, had some historical accidents. The era of him and his run -up -the musical instrument group, Pig Marion, flew to the city to play at Park Avenue Armory when the first pandemic rock down began in March 2020.
However, ROE has been carefully pursued, persuaded Pichon in a few years after these plans were dissolved, and showed the strengths of organizations that would be unpredictable to grab the moment. In 2016, ROE arranged a private racal and audit of the conductor Bernard Labadie, who recently resigned from the ensemble Les Violons Du Roy. Lavaddy was later nominated as a major conductor in St. Luke before leading orchestras in public.
The ensemble conductor is not responsible for the management or employment responsibility of a large company music director. This helps the group to attract famous people, such as Roger Norrington, Charles Mackeras, and Donald Lannicle for relatively short stints. Lavaddy's employment period was the forefront of St. Luke's programming at the annual festival this spring.
ROE is not in a hurry to appoint a successor, and he wants to experience various guest Maestros in the future, and provides New York fraction to artists such as PICHON and LOUISLANGREE. I said I wanted to do it. Former music director of Mozart Festival Orchestra, mainly led St. Luc in Carnegie.
“We don't intend to name someone right away,” he said. “But if love is attacked -if there is a real spark -we will definitely jump on the occasion.”
