LA Times: Tár harms classical music Newsnorman lebrecht January 27, 2023In the film industry’s morning paper, Mark Swed shreds the Todd Fields movie with rare savagery:What “Tár” gets right comes out feeling wrong, and what it gets wrong is just plain wrong. Without an exalted level of music, it simply doesn’t work. At one point in the film, Tár is awakened by her radio alarm. She listens for a moment and recognizes that it is a performance by Michael Tilson Thomas, whose conducting she likens to “screaming like a porn star.”That’s the last straw. Tilson Thomas’ recent L.A. Phil performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony at Walt Disney Concert Hall was one of the all-time great and least self-serving Mahler performances.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 27, 2023 21:02 UTC