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An excellent article appeared in the Dallas News [here<\/a>] which tells of the short list of candidates who were passed over in favor of Jaap van Zweden for Music Director of the Dallas Symphony.\u00c2\u00a0 In the list of honorable mentions there were two that are very familiar to Portland audiences:<\/p>\n

<\/span>Et al: <\/strong>Among other guest conductors who might have been considered music director material, Yakov Kreizberg<\/strong> and Yan Pascal Tortelier <\/strong>conducted well-proportioned and finely finished performances, but DSO musicians complained they were hard to follow. On two different occasions, Carlos Kalmar<\/strong> got playing of great precision but zero sex appeal.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An excellent article appeared in the Dallas News [here] which tells of the short list of candidates who were passed over in favor of Jaap van Zweden for Music Director of the Dallas Symphony.\u00c2\u00a0 In the list of honorable mentions there were two that are very familiar to Portland audiences: Et al: Among other guest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[86,55,3662,62,3656],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-conductor","tag-orchestra","tag-portland","tag-symphony","tag-the-orchestra-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-3a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":188,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/02\/dallas-symphony-names-music-director\/","url_meta":{"origin":196,"position":0},"title":"new appointments","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Dallas Symphony Appoints Zweden Jaap van Zweden, a 46 year old Dutch conductor (who was the youngest concertmaster in the history of the famed Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam) has been named as the next music director for the Dallas Symphony. 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