That is in large measure thanks to Marin Alsop, whom I have known for many decades, and I am particularly enthusiastic to work together with her in order to assure the succession process for the orchestra's future. I look forward to collaborating with the musicians, management, artistic leadership team, and the entire BSO community at this pivotal time in our history. For the balance of the season, this team includes Associate Conductor Nicholas Hersh , who graciously extended his tenure to help lead the digital series, BSO Sessions.
In September , Marin Alsop will begin her tenure as Music Director Laureate and OrchKids Founder — a role that includes leading three concert weeks per season through Poor health curtailed his initial five-year term with the BSO from , but an eight-year return engagement in bridged the transition to a new century and made him the longest-serving conductor of the pre-Koussevitzky era.
Among the innovations occurring under Gericke's conductorship were the commencement of regular performances in New York and other centers, the inauguration in of the Promenade Concerts, predecessors of the Boston Pops, and the move from the old Boston Music Hall to Symphony Hall in A new breed of conductor was introduced to Boston audiences in with the arrival of year-old Hungarian conductor Arthur Nikisch-a rising star from the Leipzig Opera who had been heavily influenced by Wagner and Seidl.
Nikisch possessed remarkable personal magnetism that once prompted Tchaikovsky to remark that Nikisch really doesn't conduct, but, rather, "resigns himself to a magical enchantment. Like his predecessor Nikisch, the Austrian conductor Emil Paur had studied violin and composition at the Vienna Conservatory. Puar was very interested in performing the music of Brahms, which at that time was considered "new" music and proved to be very difficult for audiences at that time to accept.
Among the landmarks of Muck's second Boston tenure were the BSO's first transcontinental tour and its first commercial recordings Higginson once referred to Dr. Muck as "the most industrious, painstaking and ablest conductor whom we have ever had. He was no relation to Arthur Fiedler.
It was not until September of just a few weeks prior to the season's opening-that Henri Rabaud, a Parisian composer and conductor, was announced as the BSO's seventh conductor.
The Trustees had spent several months sending cablegrams to England, Italy, and France in an effort to secure the services of a prominent conductor to take the place of Karl Muck. In , when Rabaud was unable to get to Boston in time for the opening of the season, Monteux, then conductor of French operas at the Metropolitan Opera agreed to lead the opening concerts.
He so impressed the Trustees and Boston audiences that he was offered the conductor position in When the orchestra lost more than 30 of its members as a result of the March strike, a cool-headed Monteux rose to the occasion, keeping the season going with minimal disruption. Beginning as a virtuoso performer on the double bass, Russian-born Sergei Alexandrovich Koussevitzky became one of the conducting giants of the twentieth century. We also perform these pieces in Vienna, London, Paris and Hamburg.
We chose the music, we chose the greatness of the music, despite the difficulties of travel. There are no borders for music. We have almost recorded everything and the Shostakovich continues as well and we love doing that. We enjoy it. We are making things as safe as possible and following the rules.
The music is back. We are welcoming everyone to join us and I think sooner or later, we will see the full concert halls. We all want to stay healthy and I hope you find the necessity for music to be your way of comfort.
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