Photo by Spencer Platt.
“[Platt’s] symphony befits an orchestra that JoAnn Falletta has often said ‘is a hybrid of European warmth and depth and American muscle.’ The audience went wild. It’s obvious that Russell Platt ‘gets’ Buffalo and we ‘get’ his music.” —Peter Hall, Buffalo Rising, on the world premiere of “Symphony in Three Movements (For Clyfford Still)” with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, April 24, 2022