The players give strong performances of Adolphe’s piece and the Romantic music filling out the concert.
With a premiere by Nicolás Lell Benavides and an appearance by mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor, the show touches a lot of bases.
Many prominent U.S. musicians have been drafted into the effort to improve their country’s image abroad, including the “dean of American composers.”
Conductor Ludovic Morlot leads a program that also includes new art to accompany Mussorgsky/Ravel’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
