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DESCRIPTION:Jun 11\, 2026\nThe symphonic literature holds no greater challe
 nge than Bruckner’s Eight\, which occupied the composer from 1884 to 189
 2. Early reactions to the score cause him no end of grief. His staunch cha
 mpion Hermann Levi (remembered as the first conductor of Wagner’s Parsif
 al)\, sent Bruckner back to the drawing board. deeming the first manuscrip
 t unperformable. After extensive revisions\, Munich scheduled the premiere
  but repeatedly postponed it. When Vienna sprang into the breach\, each br
 eak between movements brought new defections from the hall\; the kingpin c
 ritic Eduard Hanslick (whom Wagner caricatured in Die Meistersinger as the
  insufferable pedant Beckmesser) dismissed the Eighth as “repellent.” 
 Yet posterity came to regard its exploration of spiritual struggle\, yearn
 ing\, and ultimate triumph as one of the profoundest works in the symphoni
 c canon. The fact that New York’s two principal orchestras would perform
  the work in a single week beggars belief. There’s much to hope for from
  the New York Philharmonic’s interpretation under Semyon Bychkov\, a bul
 let-proof technician who is also a thinker and a seeker (June 4\, 5\, 6). 
 That may be a hard act for Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Met Orchestra to
  follow at Carnegie Hall (June 11). Nézet-Séguin isn’t one to lose his
  nerve\; no matter how taxing the assignment\, he’s game and he makes it
  to the finish line. He’s a personable ambassador for the high arts\, bu
 t he’s no deep diver\, and his performances\, too often\, are lite. Conr
 ad L. Osborne\, doyen of American opera critics and standard bearer of the
  values of an age invested in classical music as our own is invested in no
 thing of cultural import\, characterized Nézet-Séguin for the ages in hi
 s dissection of the Met’s new Tristan und Isolde\, “From time to time\
 , I glanced down at Nézet-Séguin and his players\,” said Osborne\, who
  perches by choice in the first row of the Family Circle\, where the acous
 tics are best\, “and saw him working away with broad\, eager gestures li
 ke a passionate lecturer at the base of Mt. Rushmore.”
LOCATION:Carnegie Hall\, 881 7th Ave\, New York\, NY 10019\, USA
SUMMARY:Met Orchestra: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conducts Bruckner's Eighth
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