The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal played Wednesday night under an ominously circling camera boom that looked like the latest in American democracy enforcement. Televising the evening was a good idea, but whoever programmed it is a damn genius. The four-part program was the finest concert I’ve heard this year.
It creaked under an incredible weight in stories and symbolism, and ended with a major vocalist for dessert: soprano Miah Persson joined the orchestra for Richard Strauss’s last compositions.