Music Director Alain Trudel with the Toledo Symphony.
In Monday’s (5/27) BG Independent (Ohio), David Dupont writes, “The Toledo Symphony Orchestra programs some masterworks it knows people will come to the Peristyle to hear. Other works, though less known, will have those listeners talking after the applause fades. Maestro Alain Trudel, the orchestra’s music director, believes firmly in that approach, which he credits Zak Vassar, the executive director of the Toledo Alliance for the Performing Arts, with articulating. The epitome may have been in April, when in a program inspired by the recent total solar eclipse, the orchestra performed the beloved tone poem, ‘The Planets’ by Gustav Holst, on the second half of a concert. The first half was devoted to nine short pieces, each about a planet, written by regional composers…. That ‘Planets’ concert was a showcase for the skills of the symphony musicians. The nine pieces composed by members of the collective ADJ•ective New Music represented nine … different visions … This coming season they have a lot of music to make…. Now in his eighth year, Trudel remains devoted to the TSO. Typically, an orchestra’s music director spends 10 weeks in town. Trudel spends about 20.” The article lists all programming for the Toledo Symphony’s 2024-25 season.
