Conductor Charles Hazlewood writes that he’s “launching Play the Field, a new breed of orchestral festival … [n]ot in a cathedral or any august temple of the arts, but in a field on the Somerset Levels.” He says that outdoor concerts “have tended to be indifferent performances by under-rehearsed orchestras and third-rate conductors … Has anyone heard the Amsterdam Concertgebouw orchestra perform in a field? Or Simon Rattle conduct under the stars?” (Well, there’s Ravinia and Tanglewood, and the LA Phil at the Hollywood Bowl and the NY Phil in Central Park …)