BSO delivers atmosphere and light to the Strathmore Music Center

Conductor Jun Markl, who led the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in a flamboyantly colorful program at the Strathmore Music Center on Saturday, looks every bit the part of the elegantly energetic storybook conductor. He runs on and off the stage, finds gorgeous, bullfighter-like poses and sweeps around the podium with the grace of a ballet dancer. He also seems so entirely immersed in the early-20th-century world of the program of Debussy, Ravel and De Falla he led that it's hard to imagine him in ...