May 1, 2010
Gergiev leads New York Philharmonic
A tip of the hat to Stravinsky
The New York Philharmonic held a three-week Igor Stravinsky festival this month, with eight different programs under the baton of Valery Gergiev, acclaimed general director of the Mariinsky Theatre and principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.
It has been a high point of the Philharmonic’s season. And one of the high points of that festival was Oedipus Rex, arguably Stravinsky’s most popular neoclassical endeavor,...