Article: ALBANY SYMPHONY LACKS PASSION IN PROGRAM OF GERMAN ROMANTICISM.(ENTERTAINMENT)

Byline: RON EMERY Special to the Times Union

ALBANY Music director David Alan Miller finished the first half of the 1995-96 Albany Symphony Orchestra season in the Palace Theatre on Saturday night. Miller brought a nosegay of four German Romantic orchestra pieces. Flowers in a small bouquet must be discreet, neither too colorful, too pungent nor too dramatic, so as not to overwhelm the delicacy of it all.

Miller lacked his usual sharp-edged focus in music that is neither inherently exciting nor overtly dramatic.

With some good playing by the orchestra and an expressive contribution by young Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano Lucille Beer, a ...

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