Critics Laud Conductor's New York Debut
Conductor Anu Tali's star is on the ascendant after a successful debut in New York last week.
Her baptismal appearance there was at Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, ETV reported. The March 19 performance featured the London Sinfonietta and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment performing works by the German composer Heiner Goebbels.
One of the Goebbels's works - "Songs of Wars I Have Seen," based on text by Gertrude Stein - was responsible for a meeting between Tali and the composer.
"This work was my first collaboration with Anu Tali and I was extremely pleased how she struck the right balance between sharp and soft, which is difficult to achieve," said Goebbels.
Tali said the work is really also about Estonians who have borne close witness to war too.
She said she does not want to dwell on self-pity but show that people were able to have fun during the war in spite of it all.
"I have a dream of being able to perform this work in front of Estonians," said Tali on ETV.
Tali was praised by the New York press, with a doyen of the city's critical establishment, Anthony Tomassini of the New York Times, calling her "brilliant" and her take on Goebbels, "gripping."
Kristopher Rikken