Listen to FEMALE CONDUCTORS — a whole LOT of them!!

Listen to FEMALE CONDUCTORS — a whole LOT of them!!

Back on Aug. 9, 2015, Jeremy Eichler (the Boston Globe’s classical music critic) annoyed me by repeatedly using male pronouns in an article about the art of conducting.  True, the article’s focus was the Boston SO’s new(ish) music director Andris Nelsons, but I...

Artistic Vision at the Boston Symphony Orchestra??

Jeremy Eichler (music critic at the Boston Globe) has recently worried that James Levine is not providing the BSO with strong leadership, while “Across the country orchestras are updating their approaches to programming with the goal of engaging listeners...