Jarvi In Newark: Where To Begin?

It was a major coup when the New Jersey Symphony announced that Neeme Jarvi would become its next music director. But what will the legendary Jarvi need to accomplish to put the NJSO on the map? “The [major] task will be to make the woodwind and brass players perform with the polish, subtlety, warmth and cohesiveness of the string players, newly empowered by the orchestra’s acquisition of a cache of valuable string instruments… [Jarvi,] with his obvious taste for Nordic music and with a readily available stable of maestros to extend the Nordic range… seems to be ideally placed to develop a specialty with this orchestra much the way Charles Dutoit did in French music with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.”