Season 27 1989-1990
Wong featured Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring in his first concert of the season.
New York Times: "Despite [the work’s] enormous difficulties, the orchestra did more than negotiate it, they played it very well indeed." (11/29/89)
Daily News: "Preparation was superb . . . Solo instrumental turns were impeccable in this horribly difficult music, as they were all afternoon." (Bert Wechsler 11/28/89)
The orchestra held a career symposium at Hunter College on 1-14-90 on the subject of “Musician Illness and Injury,” featuring Dr. Richard N. Norris, director of Performing Arts Medicine at Braintree Hospital in Massachusetts. Following his session, Dr. Norris participated in a panel including Dr. William Frosch, director of the Paine Whitney Psychiatric Institute of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center; Joan E. Edelstein, panel moderator and Senior Research Scientist of the Post-Graduate Medical School of New York University; and Judith Youett, an Alexander Technique Therapist.
22-year-old violinist Pamela Frank, an orchestra member for five seasons, returned as the featured soloist with the orchestra in March. She plays the Bruch Violin Concerto.
