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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: RE: Jaap van Zweden! posted by learsfool on January 27, 2016 at 22:47:37:
Yes, that's all true. But I also seem to recall hearing in 2008 that the NYP tried to lure a number of conductors to succeed Lorin Maazel who turned them down, including and perhaps above all Riccardo Muti, who then went to the Chicago Symphony.
The NY job has always been a tough sell for conductors, and some of the reasons aren't hard to see. Anthony Tommasini, the NY Times senior music critic, has already published a column in which he makes little effort to conceal his disappointment at the choice of van Zweden, whom he sees as a conservative Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms specialist.
The reality is, top musicians can play any music well. The real conservatives are those in control of the NYP board. And NYC has a large and varied music scene, with other groups that do more progressive programming. Like it or not, the NYP is the museum with the marble columns outside and the Rembrandts and Titians inside, and there's no point in blaming van Zweden for that. Good luck to him.
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