In Thursday’s (11/15) Amarillo Globe-News (Texas), Brad Newman writes, “Will three be the magic number? Amarillo Symphony concertgoers will be introduced to the third of three finalists for the organization’s vacant music director and conductor position this week. Markand Thakar will lead the orchestra for two concerts, scheduled at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S. Buchanan St. Symphony officials have asked each finalist to program and lead two performances each during the organization’s 88th season. ‘Markand has such a great breadth of experience,’ Executive Director Susan White said. … On the bill are the overture to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro,’ the Texas premiere of living composer Jonathan Leshnoff’s Violin Concerto, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, which Thakar called ‘a work of searing emotions and profound majesty.’ … Thakar is the music director of Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, the music director of Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and principal conductor of Duluth Festival Opera. He also has worked as assistant conductor of New York Philharmonic and associate conductor of Colorado Symphony.”
Posted November 16, 2012
