The Chelsea Symphony Performs New Work
It’s a bit confronting to listen to a new viola concerto and a new
symphony each of which was written by someone born after 1986 but that
is the experience the Chelsea Symphony provides fairly often. The
acoustics of the church in West 23rd Street which serves as its home are
pitch perfect but they hardly matter because the Chelsea Symphony
performs a repertoire of monumentally ambitious works that are of the
deafening rather than the chamber variety. After making light of the
two new works, which were composed by members of the orchestra as though
this was something one just does, they gave each of them a bunch of
flowers and then swept through Dvorak’s New World Symphony as if it was
an encore, which it sort of was.
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| Photo by Wai Ng |
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