LSO & Sir Antonio

Hahn Hall at the Music Academy of the West was packed when artists from the visiting London Symphony Orchestra via CAMA performed with academy alumnae, including flute, clarinet and harp, with works by Mozart and Ravel in the latest performance from the Mariposa concert series…

The final work, another Mozart piece, “Clarinet Quartet in A Major,” was particularly impressive, leading to a lengthy standing ovation.

Just 24 hours later, the Granada was sold-out when the 101-year-old LSO, under chief conductor Sir Antonio Pappano and starring Janine Jansen playing her 1715 “Shumsky, Rode” Stradivarius in Leonard Bernstein’s 35-minute “Serenade” (after Plato’s Symposium).

The orchestra’s U.S. tour debut, which also includes New York and Florida, concluded with Mahler’s “Symphony No.1, ‘Titan,’” which certainly lived up to its name.

It was so frenetic I really thought Pappano’s arms would come flying off!