Andris Nelsons´s New-Music Bona Fides
(WorldNews Music)

Andris Nelsons, the Latvian conductor who is in his third season as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has been justly criticized-along with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Jaap van Zweden, the music-director designates at the Met and the New York Philharmonic-for lacking a strong profile in the area of contemporary music. But his current series of concerts with the B.S.O. at Carnegie Hall (Feb. 28-March 2) can be considered a kind of response to that charge, whether intended as such or not. See the rest of the story at newyorker.com ......