Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Hi, Leonard! Welcome back, Margaret! Happy birthday, Ellen! While there's no dominant theme encapsulating metro Detroit's classical music scene for 2008-09, greetings and salutations are due on several fronts.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
"A true American original" was how the conductor Leonard Slatkin described the composer Donald Erb, whose music he championed over four decades. Erb was among the most widely performed of all modern American composers.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has been showering more solo opportunities on the high-caliber players in its ranks in recent years, a rewarding trend that new music director Leonard Slatkin promises to intensify in the future.
DCist (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
The financial news is far from rosy, but there is good news this morning for the city's classical music lovers. It looked to be a rudderless, vanilla season for the National Symphony Orchestra , without a Music Director since the departure of Leonard Slatkin at the end of last season. But the NSO has just announced a September surprise : veteran conductor Christoph Eschenbach (pictured),...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
... for large orchestra, chorus and two soloists. It premiered in 2006 in Washington, D.C., under Leonard Slatkin and was a great success. The Pablo Casals Festival of Puerto Rico programmed it in March 2007. Delfs happened to be conducting that program. He decided then to perform it with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Chorus."It could stand by itself," Delfs said, "but I thought...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
... unanimous choice of the NSO's search committee. He will make a strong contrast with predecessor Leonard Slatkin, who championed American repertoire. Eschenbach's strongest background is in the European classics.Having input into the Kennedy Center's music programming, as well as the NSO's should provide a keen outlet for the conductor. "No other organization in the world is mounting...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
... Orchestra's recent search took more than five years before the orchestra landed its prized quarry, Leonard Slatkin, is that the DSO failed to cultivate many potential successors during Neeme Järvi's long tenure.That brings us to Arild Remmereit, a lanky Norwegian in his mid-40s with a fast-rising reputation, who led the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in a revelatory account of César Franck's...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
With Leonard Slatkin not making his eagerly awaited formal debut as music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra until December, there may be a temptation in some quarters to view the first three months of the orchestra's 2008-09 season as a mere warm-up to the main event. Don't make that mistake.
MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Leonard Slatkin Conducts the BBC Orchestra on September 15, 2001 in honor of those who lost their lives a few days prior. Visuals from BBC's 'Last Night of the Proms' and ABC's 'Report from Ground Zero.' Music: Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The big news at the Max M. Fisher Music Center this fall is the inauguration of Leonard Slatkin's tenure as the 12th music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. But since Slatkin's formal debut won't come until December, this weekend's season-opening concerts have been entrusted to the DSO's ever-reliable principal guest conductor Peter Oundjian.
PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
... most infamous conductor-soloist debacle in music history found pianist Glenn Gould and conductor Leonard Bernstein at such pronounced odds over the tempo of a Brahms concerto that Bernstein felt it necessary to disown the performance in an announcement from the stage. So here is news: Flute virtuoso Sir James Galway looks forward to working with conductor Lorin Maazel when he and the New...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
With Leonard Slatkin not making his eagerly awaited formal debut as music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra until December, there may be a temptation in some quarters to view the first three months of the orchestra's 2008-09 season as a mere warm-up to the main event. Don't make that mistake.The DSO opened its season Thursday under the confident hand of principal guest conductor...
