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Ron Bierman is impressed by J S Bach, Barber and Haydn, played by the San Diego Symphony Orchestra led by veteran Dutch conductor Edo de Waart
2023-08-23 21:44:00
Generational Change
Davies Symphony HallPhoto by Lisa HirschThe huge wave of retirements from San Francisco Symphony, both in the recent past and with known and possible upcoming retirements, reminds me that what we are seeing now is generational change at the orchestra. Most of the many departures over the last few years were of people who'd been in the orchestra for 25 or more years, with some of them having 40+ years in the orchestra. Principal horn Robert Ward is retiring at the end of the year; he joined the orchestra in 1980. A reader of this blog and I both noticed that SFS is holding auditions this fall for associate principal cello, a position that Peter Wyrick has held since 1999. What we're seeing now is the departures of musicians who were hired by Herbert Blomstedt and MTT, with just a few going back as far as Edo de Waart. It's also […]
2022-09-16 22:33:00
[…] the critic Robert Commanday wrote in The San Francisco Examiner in 1988, that she struck observers “as the stronger of the two, and often the real leader of the section.”In a decision that Mr. Commanday described as “not very defensible,” the San Francisco Symphony’s music director, Herbert Blomstedt, stuck with his man, even after it became clear that the cost would be Ms. Fleezanis’s departure. She accepted the overtures of Mr. Blomstedt’s predecessor, Edo de Waart, who was eager to bring her to his new ensemble, the Minnesota Orchestra.Right you were, Bob. (It took MTT a few years to dislodge Kobler and then a couple more to hire Alexander Barantschik, who remains the concertmaster of SFS.)I heard Fleezanis in her associate concertmaster role in the 1980s, but I had virtually no awareness of who the individuals in the orchestra were or how important the upper seats of the violin section […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2022-02-19 18:57:41
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