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Amid an uncertain future for the Mostly Mozart Festival, conductor Louis Langrée led a fiery program that overflowed with rage rather than grief.

The program, set long before Crumb’s death in February, following an implicit logic from Debussy to Stravinsky through Charles Ives and ending in Crumb’s somber lament, Ancient Voices of Children. 

Gustavo Dudamel conducts the New York Philharmonic in a program of Robert Schumann’s symphonies that was notable for drive and energy, plus a Gabriela Ortiz premiere honoring Clara Schumann.

A premiere and a rarity cap New York Philharmonic’s mini-festival “Authentic Selves: The Beauty Within” created in partnership with Artist-in-Residence, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo. 

Less often heard works for lute and organ sat alongside a violin partita and a cello suite that bordered on perfection. 

The New York Philharmonic resumed its laudable “Project 19” with a world premiere by Joan Tower, along with a Mozart piano concerto and Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony.

Recently recovered from emergency brain surgery, the popular conductor stepped back onto the podium with the New York Philharmonic this weekend in performances that ranged from the skilled to the sublime.