Classical Music Brain Droppings
Posts tagged Conductor
Philadelphia’s stand in conductor
Oct 20th
Riccardo Muti, Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra withdrew from his remaining performances in Chicago in October due to illness (“extreme gastric distress”)
Muti and the CSO
The orchestra was able to engage Pierre Boulez to stand in for the ailing Muti.
Pierre Boulez
Boulez will conduct Mahler’s Seventh Symphony for the PBS More >
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Jun 17th
By now you have heard that the Philadelphia Orchestra has named the Québécois conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Yah-NEEK Neh-ZAY Say-GUN) to be its new music director starting in 2012.
YNS in a beefcake pose
Last year YNS (as the marketing suits like to call him) became the music director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic. He is More >
Ormandy’s 25th memorial
May 16th
Cover of the "Program"
Critic Peter Dobrin was kind enough to publish a blurb in the Inquirer about the 25th anniversary of Eugene Ormandy’s burial. There was going to be a small memorial on Saturday. So I went to the church in Society Hill – Old Pine Presbyterian – where Eugene Ormandy More >
Anshel Brusilow : The new Buddy Rich?
May 12th
The late Buddy Rich is well known as an old school big band drummer. His wit won for him many appearances on the Johnny Carson show where the public heard only sanitized stories about him. For example, when he was being prepped for surgery he was asked if he was More >
