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Leonard Slatkin to Assume New Role with Orchestre National de Lyon
Read moreApril 5, 2016 |
On September 1, 2017, Leonard Slatkin will become Honorary Music Director of the Orchestre National de Lyon. He will continue regular collaborations with the musicians of the orchestra for at least three additional seasons.
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APRIL 2016
Read moreAmid the escalating political rhetoric dominating the news, as well as atrocities being committed in the world, there was some comfort in traveling to places old and new for me this past month. I found myself ending each rehearsal period by telling the orchestras I led that we are so lucky to be musicians.
After the exhausting Brahms Festival in Detroit, I began a nine-week road trip, one that took me to orchestras familiar and unknown, at least as far as my own experiences were concerned. The first stop was in Fort Worth, with an ensemble going through its own set of difficulties during a lengthy contract negotiation. Now that I will head up the jury as well as conduct for the next Cliburn Piano Competition, it seemed logical to spend a week getting to know the orchestra a bit better.
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Slatkin Gets to Know FWSO ahead of 2017 Cliburn Competition
Read moreMarch 3, 2016
Maestro Slatkin spent a week in Fort Worth getting better acquainted with the orchestra in advance of the 2017 Cliburn Competition.
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Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra to Perform Slatkin’s “Kinah”
Read moreFebruary 18, 2016
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra announced that they will perform Leonard Slatkin’s composition Kinah on April 20 and April 22, 2017. Conductor Ward Stare will conduct the RPO in a program that opens with Slatkin’s elegy to his parents and closes with Mahler’s Symphony No. 5.
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New Ravel Recording Released
Read moreFebruary 13, 2016
The Orchestre National de Lyon released its recording of Ravel’s L’Heure espagnole and Don Quichotte á Dulcinée on the Naxos label.
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DSO Announces 2016-17 Classical Season, “Gershwin and His Children”
Read moreFebruary 1, 2016
Join the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for the 2016-17 Classical season, a survey of music demonstrating how American culture has influenced composers around the world.
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DSO Presents Brahms Festival
Read moreJanuary 30, 2016
Experience four symphonies, two piano concerti, two serenades, and much more in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s three-week Brahms Festival Celebration, February 11-28, 2016.
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Leonard Slatkin on the Sinatra Centennial
Read moreDecember 8, 2016
Maestro Slatkin spoke with Susan Whitall of The Detroit News about his family connections to Frank Sinatra, sharing his personal reflections for her article “Remembering Frank Sinatra, ‘The Voice,’ on His Birthday.”
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Maestro Slatkin Conducts the “Resurrection” Symphony with Gustav Mahler’s Baton
Read moreDecember 6, 2015
In the fifth movement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Maestro Slatkin conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Wayne State University Chorus using Gustav Mahler’s baton.
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DECEMBER 2015
Read moreThe slight delay in this posting is due to what many of you now will know. After what will be ten seasons with the DSO, I am moving into a different position with the orchestra. At this point, I have no idea what the various questions will be from journalists as well as my regular readers. So I thought it would be a good idea to let you know what is occurring.
This past summer, I took nine weeks off from conducting. Some of that time was devoted to really thinking about what the remainder of my career would look like. I also reviewed what had been accomplished and what was left to do in Detroit. At the same time, contract negotiations for the future were commencing.