The Brooklyn Philharmonic young conductor Alan Pierson is said to be the man pushing the 18th century orchestra forward. In an interview with Time Out New York Pierson talked on what led him to this point and what he is trying to do with the recently ailing ensemble.
Pierson found himself in a situation when he took over the Brooklyn Philharmonic. The orchestra were reduced just to seven musicians instead of its past allotment of 30, he found himself with a homeless ensemble who could not afford rent for its long standing home the Brooklyn Academy of Music and a essentially inherited a broken unit.
"The fact that this was a position with no blueprint was very appealing to me. It's a remarkable thing to find an institution with such an august, history that was completely open to reinventing itself," said Pierson.
His own mother didn't even want him to take the position said Time Out New York but the conductor said that the allure of Brooklyn and its diversity ultimately led to his decision.
"I don't know another place in the world where this whole mission of making an orchestra its community's orchestra would be as exciting as it is in Brooklyn," said Pierson.
The new leader of the Brooklyn Philharmonic is known for taking Aphex tracks which goes under the tag of electronic songs and turning them into a fine chamber pieces hinted will not compromise the integrity of this new orchestra with anything less than quality and will look to bring forth faithful representation of the classical music genre.
"That's something I worry about every time I embark on a project like this. The fear is that when you take music from another sphere into the orchestral world, you rob it of its essence without contributing anything new to it. How you avoid that is to make sure that the material is artistically interesting, to think really carefully about how it will survive the transition into an orchestral world and be confident that what's going to come out the other end isn't just a pale imitation of the original, but that it gains something from the process," said Pierson.
Pierson played at Carnegie Hall to a chorus of excellent reviews.
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