Mid-Term Report: Otto Tausk at the VSO

Our colleges and universities have just completed mid-term exams. This concept doesn’t usually transfer to the arts, but it makes sense to consider what’s been going on at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, in the midst of great change with the first months of Otto Tausk’s tenure as the new music director. A look, then, at Tausk’s concerts thus far, as something akin to a mid-term report.
All conductors have their own ideas of orchestral sound, their own programming priori