Guest Conductor Richard Westerfield Leads The TSO Through Mozart And Shostakovich.
By Emil Franzi
RICHARD WESTERFIELD, RECENTLY appointed Associate Conductor
of the Boston Symphony, will lead the Tucson Symphony in two performances
this week, with a program of Mozart and Shostakovich. He ll be
joined in the Mozart clarinet concerto by Burt Hara. Westerfield is currently the director of the Harrisburg Symphony.
Boston Maestro Seija Ozawa made Westerfield the first full Associate
Conductor there since Michael Tilson Thomas held the post 25 years
ago. Like Thomas and our own George Hanson, the 40-year-old Westerfield
is a protégé of the late Leonard Bernstein. At the
By norman lebrecht
The Metropolitan Opera has crafted these unloving words in memory of its former music director whose death was made known today:
The Metropolitan Opera honors the memory of former Music Director James Levine, who held the musical reins of the company for four-and-a-half decades.
Maestro Levine conducted more than 2,500 performances of 85 different operas at the Met, starting with his company debut in 1971 leading Puccini’s Tosca. Celebrated for shaping the Met Orchestra and Chorus into the finest in the world, he was also responsible for considerably expanding the Met repertoire. Levine conducted the first-ever Met performances of Mozart’s Idomeneo and La Clemenza di Tito, Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex, Verdi’s I Vespri Siciliani, I Lombardi and Stiffelio, Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Schoenberg’s Erwartung and Moses und Aron, Berg’s Lulu, Rossini’s La Cenerentola, and Berlioz’s