Matthew Murray takes a look at The New York Pops: It's Christmas Time in the City:
Yes, the holidays should be big, bold, colorful, and exciting, but you don't want to lose the intimacy and the quiet meaning of it all within the rush. That balance might be one of my favorite things about the annual New York Pops holiday concerts at Carnegie Hall. Yes, you're immersed in the grand professionalism (and even more heavenly sounds) of one of the country's great orchestras, under the masterful, playful baton of conductor Steven Reineke. But as this year's installment, "It's Christmas Time in the City," which played on Friday and Saturday, proved, the season can be every bit as good quiet as it can loud — and there's plenty of both to go around. . . . |
