RUSSIANS, MTT: BOTH ARE BACK
Pairing a most introspective work with a most extroverted one was yet another instance showing Michael Tilson Thomas still on top of his game in programming. And his program of Shostakovich and Prokofiev was winning wide admiration from the patrons, despite the works coming out of Russia, not exactly our closest neighbors these days, and out of old Soviet Russia at that. As if to attest to his on-going recovery from the brain surgery of last summer, Music Director Laureate…
