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Dec 19, 2008
Your dress rehearsal yesterday with the Chicago Symphony was incredible. I arrived too late for the Weber Overture to \”Oberon\”, but you and Mathieu Dufour somehow made the Nielsen Flute Concerto come alive in a way that made me fall in love with a piece I\’d only been lukewarm about until yesterday. The \”Symphonie fantastique\” was a different kind of revelation: sensitive to every nuance in the score (but why were the cornet passages omitted?), it was (if you\’ll pardon the cliché) like hearing the piece for the first time. The last conductor to conjure from the CSO a \”Fantastique\” this idiomatic and memorable was Martinon in 1967. Alas, I was unable to attend your November concert with the Staatskapelle, but I fervently hope you will return to Chicago as often as possible (regardless of orchestra).
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