Berlin conductor Petrenko worried `no one needs us anymore’
Associated PressKirill Petrenko thought back to the spring of 2020, when his first season as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic was abruptly stopped by the coronavirus pandemic. When concerts resumed with a chamber-sized orchestra in Berlin’s empty Philharmonie that May 1 with a digital feed, Petrenko likened it to when Glenn Gould abandoned playing piano live and retreated to the recording studio. “It’s not just music-making, it’s music-making in front of someone or for someone or to provide our knowledge but also to change someone who is in this room right now, This is what was missing so much.” Petrenko will lead the Berlin Philharmonic in their first U.S. tour in six years. He conducts Mahler’s Seventh Symphony at Carnegie Hall on Nov. 10 and 12, and has a concert in the middle with Andrew Norman’s “Unstuck,” Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. “We aim to build an American family of friends and donors for the orchestra,” said Andrea Zietzschmann, who became the orchestra’s general manager for the 2017-18 season.
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