Musical Deus Ex Machina for Gustav Mahler and the CBSO in Riga

  • 2011-01-06
  • By Edgars Kariks, M.Mus.
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra made its long-awaited Riga debut in the National Opera House on the icy cold evening of Nov. 26, 2010. Despite the need for any and all professional and touring orchestras to be able to earn a professional living and the absolute necessity to have sold-out/standing room only concerts – with bums on every seat and every precarious railing, I’m glad I didn’t go to look-see the spectacle and its attendant audience of enthusiastic groupies before and after a performance of the Rachmaninoff 3rd piano concerto and the Symphony Nr. 5 b...
 
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