Nov 1, 2019
This week we hear from Peter Oundjian, who stepped in on short notice to guest conduct the Seattle Symphony. Oundjian is Conductor Emeritus of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, where he was music director for 14 years. He’s conducting the SSO this week in place of Cristian Macelaru who could not be here due to illness. Oundjian talks about his admiration for the music of Felix Mendelssohn as heard in the composer’s “Scottish” Symphony on the program this week. He tells Dave Beck about how his many years as first violinist in the Tokyo String Quartet inform his interpretation of symphonic music, and speaks on his recent return to the violin after a neurological condition forced him to put down the instrument in the mid-1990s.