Norma Jean Westerfield Baker, nee Beck, passed away on April 18, 2024, at Eagle Crest in La Crosse, WI. She was born in Canton, Illinois to Eldon and Geneva Beck
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