Change is coming for the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and for its longtime music director, Louis Langrée — this month is the beginning of the end of his tenure with the orchestra.
When the ensemble appears at Lincoln Center next year it will be with a freshly conceived name, and with the conductor Jonathon Heyward at the helm.
So there is a sense of finality hovering over this summer’s offerings, which began last weekend with a free outdoor concert in Damrosch Park.
On Tuesday night, Langrée and his players resumed their more typical places in the recently refurbished David Geffen Hall — renovations that kept the festival orchestra out of that theater last year.
In remarks before the concert, Langrée warmly recalled his two-decade relationship with the orchestra and with New York audiences.
Persons:
Louis Langrée, Jonathon Heyward, Heyward, Langrée, David, Amir ElSaffar, Mozart
Organizations:
Orchestra, Lincoln Center, David Geffen Hall
Locations:
Damrosch Park, New York