Tall, gawky, bright-eyed, Nelsons ascends the podium looking like an overgrown boy who has been given an orchestra for his birthday. He assumed the directorship of the Latvian National Opera while still in his mid-twenties, and took the helm of the City of Birmingham Symphony in 2008, at the age of twenty-nine. A former martial-arts student, Nelsons lunges about uninhibitedly, violating textbook rules about the wisdom of minimizing one’s gestures. I imagine that Boston players have already mastered imitations of his signature moves: the Backward Lean, the Extreme Crouch, the Trapeze Grab, the Across-the-Table Ice-Cream Scoop.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 21:02:31 +0000
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