{"id":643,"date":"2008-01-05T16:11:30","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T00:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/05\/inside-scoop-on-de-waart-appointment\/"},"modified":"2008-01-05T16:11:30","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T00:11:30","slug":"inside-scoop-on-de-waart-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/05\/inside-scoop-on-de-waart-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"inside scoop on de waart appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"

This blog entry<\/a>, written by MSO principal violist Robert Levine<\/a>, talks about the recent appointment of Edo deWaart as the next music director of the Milwaukee Symphony.<\/p>\n

Here’s a taste:<\/p>\n

Most members of the orchestra regard this as very good news, I think. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arguably the best-known conductor we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever had as music director (certainly the one with the most illustrious career prior to coming here). In fact we have rarely had conductors of his stature even as guests. And the orchestra reacted very positively to him when he was here in December. People were also relieved that the orchestra would be able to avoid being without a music director for a season or two, which is always death for ticket sales.<\/p>\n

Will it \u00e2\u20ac\u0153work\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? It shows all the makings of working musically.\u00c2\u00a0 As I said, the orchestra was very happy about what they saw in December. And while his public words of praise <\/a>for the orchestra were what one would expect, I though I saw genuine surprise and pleasure about the quality of the orchestra from him when he was here in December \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a reaction I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen many times before from first-time visitors to the MSO. Perhaps they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen too many \u00e2\u20ac\u0153LaVerne and Shirley\u00e2\u20ac\u009d re-runs, but the quality of this orchestra does seem to be a closely-guarded secret in the business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This blog entry, written by MSO principal violist Robert Levine, talks about the recent appointment of Edo deWaart as the next music director of the Milwaukee Symphony. Here’s a taste: Most members of the orchestra regard this as very good news, I think. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arguably the best-known conductor we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever had as music director (certainly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[115,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-the-orchestra-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-an","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4063,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/15\/former-pyp-conductor-named-md-of-memphis-symphony\/","url_meta":{"origin":643,"position":0},"title":"former PYP conductor named MD of Memphis Symphony","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Mei-Ann Chen, currently Assistant conductor of the Baltimore Symphony, has been named the new Music Director of the Memphis Symphony! 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