The Dallas Morning News: Dallas Symphony Dazzles: Fabio Luisi Conducts Schuman, Copland and Liszt’s Faust Symphony

Anthony McGill
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The Dallas Morning News
By Scott Cantrell

It seemed an odd way to start a symphony season, but I was convinced Thursday night.

It did seem an odd way to start a symphony season.

The all-American first half — William Schuman’s flashy American Festival Overture and Aaron Copland’s sublime Clarinet Concerto — fine. But then 70 minutes of Lisztian rumination and bombast on Goethe’s Faust?

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Anthony McGill, principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic (and brother of former DSO principal flutist Demarre McGill, now with the Seattle Symphony), played most expressively, with plenty of pizzazz when called for. Luisi and the orchestra were right with him.

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