Daily News | David Bowie recorded this with the Philadelphia Orchestra. The work returned this weekend, along with the orchestra’s family concerts.
For the opening Mozart and other works, Saturday’s Philadelphia Orchestra audience was noisy and restless. Then cameChildren are the best critics. They will tell you in real time how you’re doing, and it was heartening on this Saturday morning to watch orchestral music holding sway over yet another generation. There wasn’t a flit of the bird or creaky scold of the grandfather in Prokofiev’s score that didn’t produce an audible response from the crowd.
This was especially obvious in the return of Michael Boudewyns’ charmingly handmade take on the tale. David Bowie once recorded this piece with the Philadelphians, sounding velvety and regal. Here, Boudewyns comes across like someone’s chirpy, antic uncle who decides to tell the story with improvised props found in the attic five minutes ago.
The orchestra does care about modeling talent on stage so children can imagine themselves upon it someday. That’s one reason for showcasing winners of the Albert M. Greenfield Student Competition at these concerts. The future was easy to imagine in the hands of William Ge and Beatrice Chen., was notably fluid while gilding the music with spots of interpretive individualization. Chen this summer
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