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Feb
19
This analysis of Chicago Symphony’s current dilemma expresses well the ever-evolving qualities now needed in music leaders around the world.
“Serious musicians — including the 100-plus members of the CSO — know that finding a new music director for one of the world’s top orchestras is not comparable to finding a new coach for a sports team or a new CEO for a retail chain. It’s not even comparable to hiring a new head of a major art museum or a general director of an opera house, because those individuals, however talented and hard-working they might be, don’t have to paint the pictures in the galleries or conduct the operas from the orchestra pit.
A music director has to provide an impossible-to-quantify mixture of artistic leadership — technical, social, psychological — with organizational competence, political judgment, a marketable personality and vision, and in the best instances some sense of civic connection and responsibility.”
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/music/classical/261692,SHO-Sunday-cso18.article
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