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French singer and composer
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2023-12-20 18:01:00
[…] my list. I thought the Hillborg and Busoni both great. MTT's LvB 9 was very special. And maybe I should have included Salonen's E-flat Beethoven concert, with a marvelous Eroica and a great Emperor concerto with Igot Levit.I have to mention some of the odder goings-on in, well, musical institution personnel news:Gustavo Dudamel leaves the Paris Opera after only two seasons.Chad Smith leaves the LA Phil after many years, moving to Boston, where his former LA Phil colleague Gail Samuel lasted only 18 months as CEO.The CSO hasn't announced a new music director, despite the years of lead time Muti gave them and the plethora of talent.The Seattle Symphony hasn't announced a new music director nearly two years after Thomas Dausgaard's abrupt departure, possibly explained by the apparent administrative turmoil and a CEO, Krishna Thiagarajan, who seems difficult to work with.
2023-05-15 18:38:00
Wait, What? Chad Smith to BSO
Walt Disney Concert HallPhoto by Lisa HirschA huge surprise today: Los Angeles Philharmonic chief executive Chad Smith is leaving in the fall for the Boston Symphony. Smith was the longtime artistic administrator of the LA Phil, then became CEO after the short tenure of Simon Woods, who succeeded Deborah Borda. Smith is filling a position most recently vacated, after only 18 months, by Gail Samuel, who had similarly been a successful executive at the LA Phil.This leaves the LA Phil in the position of losing its CEO when they are starting the search for a new music director, pending Gustavo Dudamel's departure at the end of the 2025-26 season.Knowing that a limited number of people are qualified to run a big, important orchestra that has a large budget: Is LA possibly going to hire Gail Samuel back, this time as CEO? Are we looking at....interim CEO Deborah Borda, because she is about […]
2023-04-06 17:01:25
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