“Conducted by Ted Sperling, the concert sustained an ideal, acoustically perfect mixture of brassy confidence and vaulting romanticism.”
Stephen Holden, The New York Times
TED SPERLING has maintained an active and successful career in the theater and concert worlds for over thirty years. A multi-faceted artist, he is a director, music director, conductor, orchestrator, singer, pianist, violinist and violist. He is the Artistic Director of MasterVoices, Music Director of the current Broadway production of “My Fair Lady”, and the Music Director of NYU's first ever Broadway Orchestra course, training the next generation of Broadway musicians.
Mr. Sperling won the 2005 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for his orchestrations of The Light in the Piazza, for which he was also music director. Other Broadway credits...
“Ted Sperling conducted with affectionate, sympathetic verve and kept everyone dancing, prancing, ogling and miming with exceptional precision and style.”
Martin Bernheimer, Financial Times
Sperling’s conducting of the score was simply ravishing with Weill’s sinuous orchestrations registering with crystalline clarity as played by the Orchestra of St. Luke’s.
Harry Forbes
“...the New York Philharmonic program at Avery Fisher Hall on Monday evening, was to encounter the ultimate embodiment of the romantic myth that sustained the Broadway musical during its golden years...Throughout, Mr. Sperling confidently steered the singers and the orchestra in a direction that avoided anything smacking of formal classical crossover (despite Mr. Gunn’s operatic roots) while giving music by Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Weill and Leonard Bernstein its full romantic due.”
