Blog Critics - The Knights and Lara St. John with music of Avner Dorman and Felix Mendelssohn at the Central Park Bandshell

“The organizers of the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts could hardly have asked for a nicer evening for The Knights and Violinist Lara St. John to present the New York premiere of Avner Dorman’s Nigunim. The darkening sky turned rose-red and aqua blue as the audience heard a spectacular performance of the virtuosic concerto and an invigorating reading of Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 (“Scottish”).”