LINDSAY DEUTSCH
L.A. Weekly
May 30, 2007
Higher Education
By Alan Rich
Jeffrey Kahane’s return to his Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, after a doctor-ordered dropout, drew a happy welcome; he, too, is the object of great local pride and, let him not forget, he owes us — at his pleasure — one final Mozart concerto bash.
This time, instead, there was a pleasant new work — if along LACO’s typical blandness propensities — by composer in residence Gernot Wolfgang, Desert Wind, involving jazz accents and some bright statements by horn (Richard Todd) and oboe (Allan Vogel) soloists.
Somewhat livelier was Astor Piazzolla’s delightful, jocular Vivaldi rip-off, his own Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, with violinist Lindsay Deutsch spinning her own magic webs around Piazzolla’s pseudo-Baroque patterns and the music zeroing in close to its original source material at the charming close. On her and Vivaldi’s own, Deutsch contributed one original “Season” and could, for my money, have danced all night. |