Orchestra has ‘new level of precision and excitement’

(Editorial published in the New Haven Register on Sunday, May 2, 2010)

The Register has been paying attention the the New Haven Symphony lately, and it should.

The April concert was spectacular, including Jin Hi Kim’s wild drumming as she played her own piece and the overwhelming Fifth Symphony of Beethoven, which brought an emotional audience to its feet.

It has taken a couple of years for word to get around that William Boughton is drawing out of the symphony a level of precision and excitement that we’ve never heard before, but now people are hearing this news, and the audience is growing.

I usually hear symphonies on the radio and at each concert I’m amazed again at the brilliance of a live orchestra as the sound of horns soars over Woolsey Hall from one direction, flutes from another.

The symphony will play Beethoven’s Ninth on May 13 with the Hartford Chorale. This promises to be an even more exciting evening, if possible.

Alice Mattison
New Haven

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