Dallas Symphony getting bowed over by new director

Dallas Morning News classical music critic Scott Cantrell has a glowing welcome to Dallas piece for van Zweden.

But, Scott’s been critical of DSO string play for years. A fair part of the fault lays at the feet of Andrew Litton. (And Scott has noted Jaap got the strings strung right in 2006 and 2007-08 guest appearances.)

And, he laid down the Fort Worth Symphony gauntlet on string play quality recently, to boot. (And, he’s right. If you can do a good M7 — I was on vacation, or I likely would have driven over to Fort Worth to hear for myself — you are top-notch.)

Speaking of that, van Zweden is even interested in some cooperative work with his opposite number, Miguel Harth Bedoya, and the “Cowtown gang.”

In the long term, and with van Zweden wanting to program more modern music, too, and perhaps having a certain vision for the DSO’s string sound (a la the famous “Philadelphia sound” of Eugene Ormandy), will there be clashes with Borok?

Not likely, says Cantrell, who says van Zweden, a former A-league concertmaster, should work well with Borok, whom he says will be pleased to have him here.

Scott also has a separate Q&A with van Zweden, but I’ll be damned if I can find it on the effed-up Dallas Morning News website. Even Google News isn’t showing it in advanced search mode, so some Snooze Net-jockey must have forgotten to upload it or something.