Benjamin Beilman leads the New Century Chamber Orchestra with JungHae Kim
Herbst Theatre
2017-11-11 than substantial. Certainly the tonal range was far more restricted than the other works on tonight's program, but unexpectedly, so to was the emotional range and tempo: the whole thing was kind of frantic and loud. Of course, maybe that was the point: to show that violins can be as obnoxious as video games. Happily, it wasn't too long, so by the time I started feeling uninterested, it was also time for the piece to end.

It was a little surprising to me that the show ended without an encore, but given the sparse audience and the tepid response to the Beethoven (plenty of polite applause, but no hooting or hollering), I guess we got what we deserved!

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