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Klaus Mäkelä with Chicago Symphony Orchestra President Jeff Alexander

What Price Glory? A Word on Music Directors

“Conducting has become the profession of a traveling salesman… A conductor has to stay put to educate an orchestra.” – William Steinberg (1899-1978) former music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony

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The Vienna Philharmonic Soars With the Staples at Carnegie Hall

Vienna Philharmonic with Riccardo Muti, Carnegie Hall, 3/1/25. Pete Matthews In January 2003, I took my first-ever trip to Vienna: a five-day whirlwind that included visits to museums and palaces,

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