Soirée Musicale.

1-31-16 SHORT HILLS: NJPAC presented Orchestre National de France, Daniele Gatti, conducting, Friday night, and we were there. We heard Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1, and Symphony No. 5 by Tchaikovsky. For our Teutonic-shaped musical tastes, the program offered a look at and feel for different sounds. Julian Rachlin, the very animated violin soloist, plays a Stradivarius violin, one of some 500 still surviving. The audience applauded only once between movements of the concerto.


Cellos lounging around while on break during the intermission.