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Concert Roundup
THE Israel Philharmonic Orchestra's season-opening all-Strauss program may well have provided a new element for Mehta and the orchestra.
Now that Strauss has become "legal," a new world seems to have opened for the music director in which he not only feels at home but which reveals the best of him.
Mehta excels well in impulsive music and Strauss is not only impulsive, it is inflaming, passionate and powerful, qualities which inspire Mehta.
This concert, featuring two pieces by Strauss, the tone poem Don Quixote and "The Dance of the Seven Veils" and final scene from Salome, proved a tremendous success.
Both the conductor and the orchestra seemed imbued...