By Lyn Bronson
Last night’s concert, “Music of Destiny,” ended the first week of the 73rd Carmel Bach Festival. For this week’s audience, it was Maestro Bruno Weill’s final concert of the Festival. As a”Swan Song,” so to speak (or by any standard, for that matter), Bruno Weill is departing in a blaze of glory. The concluding work on the program, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, was full of sound and fury, with an especially gorgeous slow movement and a knock-em-dead finale that brought the audience to its feet with a storm of tumultuous applause and lots of bravos! It is one of the most familiar symphonies ever written, however, during this concert the Festival Orchestra gave us a strong and vital performance that kept us totally involved from its first to its last stormy notes.
