What’s on my desk today (and my iPod)?

After concerts in the UK with the Philharmonia Orchestra performing an all-English program of Walton with my old friend Gil Shaham and Holst's ever-popular The Planets, this summer I'll be returning to the Aspen Music Festival to conduct the Chamber Orchestra in a program of Steven Stucky, Beethoven and Schumann. I'll also be teaching the conducting fellows there for a couple of weeks.

And for a change of pace, a little Radiohead, a lot of Beatles, and the incomparable Grace Slick singing "Somebody to Love", the 1967 anthem of the Jefferson Airplane. This last song is at the heart of the Coen brothers latest film, A Serious Man, a dark, wickedly funny, disturbing exploration of how bad things happen to good people. Still in theaters in Europe, it’s been nominated for a Best Picture Oscar and is just out on DVD in the US. (Full disclosure: my son, Aaron, has a leading role!)

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'the evening's strength was the conductor, Hugh Wolff, an urbane host who without undue Sturm und Drang made Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony, the composer's third, an absolute delight.'

Click here to read the Washington Post review of Hugh's recent concerts with Joshua Bell and the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center