Thread: Conductor News

Rather than starting a new thread for each and every conductor, I thought it made sense to have one thread that could keep us abreast of newsworthy events. Orchestra changes, passings, scandals, for example.

Article linkage is good. It helps guard against the crude, as well as unsubstantiated.

I'll kick it off with some Kent Nagano news.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/enter...015/story.html

Claudio Abbado has been honored with Gramophone's Lifetime Achievement Award.

http://www.classicfm.com/concerts-ev...ent-gramophon/

nice honor for him.

Charles Mackerras?

Best wishes to Zoltan Kocsis pianist/conductor, who is reported to have had a heart attack on September 21, and is now recovering in hospital.

Muti braves Mexican traffic.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...3181723.column

Re The Met, enough is enough of Levine. Luisi has the right 'tude, and should be hired fulltime.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/ar...et-season.html

Jeanne Lamon stepping down after 33 years.

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment...rement-in-2014

A "100th birthday party" was held for Sir Georg Solti.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...,743893.column

89-year-old Stanislaw Skrowaczewski steps up to the podium to conduct a concert by the locked-out musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra.

http://www.startribune.com/entertain...1.html?refer=y

Gilbert extended.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/ar...agewanted=all&

Douglas Boyd humor...

http://www.freep.com/article/2012102...030/1035/rss04

Originally Posted by Vaneyes

Douglas Boyd humor...

http://www.freep.com/article/2012102...030/1035/rss04

Saw this! Do you think he'll be invited back?

"Lionel Bringuier, resident conductor with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has been made the chief conductor and music director of Switzerland’s Zurich Tonhalle. His post will begin with the 2014-15 season and will run for four years."

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...0,455303.story

Originally Posted by KenOC

"Lionel Bringuier, resident conductor with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has been made the chief conductor and music director of Switzerland’s Zurich Tonhalle. His post will begin with the 2014-15 season and will run for four years."

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...0,455303.story

We can only guess that his predecessor had enough of Friday night disco.

I was surprised to read that Tonhalle has over a hundred musicians. Never sounded like it to me.

I did like some of their R. Strauss with Zinman.

Gergiev will not tempt the crane.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/ar...ff-limits.html