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Jan 12, 2021 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Something that would help our field, it seems to me, is to separate the Music Director position from the Principal Conductor position at orchestras. If nothing else, you'd get a wider range of musical tastes/interests at the top, which would serve the institutions well.
I've also seen too many situations where big/biggish-name conductors shoot down an idea that has the backing of their orchestras' creative staff, because it's just not of personal interest to them. Conductor ego is a substantial source of regressive energy in classical music.
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UPDATE: upon sending this petition to the two Presidents, @JonMcTaggart replied to me with a letter that I would feel obliged to reprint, were it not nearly word-for-word identical to the statement just released by Classical MPR:
