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Incredibly well-written, thank you so much for sharing the details as well as the background information. It's a happy day in Los Angeles and yes, a great day for orchestras all across the world.

Maybe more business - period - should take the lead of the Los Angeles Phil in their searches.

I hope this situation works out for the orchestra. Two years is a long wait for a new director, but I would think that they would program concerts with the new director over those two years.

Our orchestra here just hired a new director after the previous director passed. There wasn't any fuss or anything bad press about any of the four canidates. I think it depends on the orchestra and the situation of why the director is leaving.

I read the Ross article in my snail-mail New Yorker, and I just was stunned that a national magazine would run a 12 page article (with cartoons) about Classical Music. It is a very good article. I enjoyed the quote:

"He [Salonen] likes to cite an adage of his homeland: a Finnish introvert looks at his own shoes, while a Finnish extrovert looks at other people's shoes."

I like to read Ross' blog therestisnoise.com. It has a lot of good information about contemporary music, and superb links.

If he can conduct as good as he looks....hahah