![]() Yet he conducted without a baton and with constricted gestures, apparently to conserve energy. The resulting performances were well below this orchestra’s usual standards of ensemble and expression. ![]() It is said of long-lived conductors like Pierre Monteux and Leopold Stokowski that, even when enfeebled by age, they could ignite an orchestral cataclysm with the arch of an eyebrow or the flick of a finger.īut one wonders. Wednesday night in David Geffen Hall, conductor Herbert Blomstedt, who will turn 90 next July, looked trim and agile as he strode onstage to lead the New York Philharmonic in Beethoven’s Seventh and Eighth symphonies. Herbert Blomstedt conducted the New York Philharmonic in a Beethoven program Wednesday night. ![]()
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