You may not love to listen to Beethoven like Annie Lennox’s fabulously unravelling housewife ….
But would you listen to him if the conductor looked like this?
Does sex sell classical? Sure!
I know I would. And I will, as young Swiss conductor Philippe Jourdan leads the San Francisco Symphony (and renowned French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard) in Beethoven’s lovely, sweeping, and somewhat hot-blooded Piano Concerto #3 — as well as Ludwig van’s Egmont Overture and Richard Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony, October 26-27 at Davies Symphony Hall (and Thursday the 25th in Cupertino). Come for the cutie, stay for the music — that’s what I always slur ….
This Friday and Saturday evening. Click here for more dishy info.