NSO review: Contemporary percussion staple hits NSO

On paper, before the show, the National Symphony Orchestra's program this week looked like a piece of programming timidity. There was a new work, yes -- Avner Dorman's percussion concerto "Frozen in Time" -- but it was sandwiched between two staples of the repertory: Mozart's "Haffner" symphony and Dvorak's ubiquitous Ninth Symphony, "From the New World."