California’s youth orchestra stirs up an old television flashback

Before the economic bubble burst towards the end of the last decade, it was quite commonplace for the great US orchestras to come on annual tours to Europe and to spin off this way with star conductors and solo artists.

So busy did orchestral traffic become, at one stage, that a debate soon raged as to the merits of the US style as against that of the British and the Europeans. The arguments ...