Composer-conductor Brett Dean. rday’s Toronto Symphony concert – ominously entitled “Knocking at the Hellgate” – at Roy Thomson Hall was the third and final event in this year’s New Creations Festival. However, it was the first of the three I attended – so I can’t conclusively say that the whole festival was disappointingly uneven. But alas, this concert was.
The best music of the evening came as a surprise, and with a touch of irony. After the TSO had played their way through a couple of orchestral pieces, a young man calling himself “Scratch Bastid” took to the stage with a table full of electronic gear, and proceeded to perform his Festival Remix.
The best music of the evening came as a surprise, and with a touch of irony. After the TSO had played their way through a couple of orchestral pieces, a young man calling himself “Scratch Bastid” took to the stage with a table full of electronic gear, and proceeded to perform his Festival Remix.
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