Review: SD Symphony ‘Refreshingly Unusual’ Under Weilerstein

SD Symphony ‘Refreshingly Unusual’ Under Weilerstein

A jarring ‘Bump,’ by Rouse, opens the evening, which ended with a roof-raising finale with Berlioz’s ‘Symphonie Fantastique’

by Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune

"Many Americans perceive classical music as something dainty and pristine that uplifts listeners through transcendentally beautiful sounds. Those folks should have heard Joshua Weilerstein conduct the San Diego Symphony Friday evening. They would have experienced a sonic curiosity cabinet of musical oddities — refreshingly unusual. "

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