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When Alisa Weilerstein stepped on stage to play Joan Tower's new cello concerto during a Colorado thunderstorm, it was a case of three elemental powers conspiring to create.

Five years on from her historic appointment as the first woman to head a major American orchestra, Marin Alsop took to the stage of Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley Friday night with a swagger, leading the impressive Baltimore Symphony, the orchestra with whom she has made her mark as one of the world’s leading conductors.

Pour leur première au nouveau festival de la Philharmonie, l'orchestre maison et le chef finlandais ont échoué à retranscrire toute la diversité expressive d'un programme pourtant séduisant sur le papier.