Review | Outstanding in the Fields, with Jazz-Colored Lining

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Review | Outstanding in the Fields, with Jazz-Colored Lining

A funny thing happened at The Granada Theatre last week, when the renowned Academy of St Martin in the Fields orchestra closed out the CAMA “International Series” season. An impressive and full-blown drum kit was perched on center stage. Needless to say, this might be comprehensible at a jazz-oriented show, but is anything but standard practice in orchestral culture. Soon enough, the audience realized that the “what’s wrong with this picture?” s…