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grim-faced music making?

I read with interest an archived review by Stephen Marc Beaudoin from the Willamette Week of the OSO’s last classical subscription concert, which featured the works of MacMillan’s The Confession of Isobel Gowdie and Mendelssohn’s Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It was nice to hear that the MacMillan was appreciated (I even had a woman approach the edge of the stage at the end of intermission to thank me for that piece in particular), and the high state of artistic prowess that the orchestra acknowledged.