WQXR features Xian Zhang

Apr 11, 2016

WQXR writes:

A welcoming audience embraced the incoming music director at Thursday’s concert, a preview of Zhang’s term, which goes through the 2019-2020 season. The performance reflected her strong rapport with the orchestra, as seen through a program of Tchaikovsky’s Marche Slave and Fourth Symphony, as well as Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto.

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Following the program, Zhang enumerated her ambitious goals for the NJSO once she does officially assume the role of music director ... “You have a sound in your head,” Zhang said, explaining that the conductor’s job is to implement it: “The conductor’s vision exists in sound.”

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