The orchestra is on its annual spring break this week, a
much-deserved hiatus after many strenuous weeks of music-making: from the Brandenburgs to Mitsuko
Uchida to Turangalila to Doctor Atomic premieres at Powell and
Carnegie halls to Symphonia Domestica to
Shostakovich 10 to The Creation. And all
the other music in between and all the many community concerts and recitals and
Family Concerts and Classical Detours, plus the day-to-day business of lives
with partners and children and aches and pains and flu. No business like show
business.
Staff, of course, remains busy, buoying up the mighty ship.
Or as Lou Reed sang with the Velvet Underground: "Some people like to go out
dancin'/ And other people like us, we gotta work."
