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February 2004 |
By Alidė Kohlhaas
If the Toronto Symphony Orchestra's (TSO) new music director has his way, Toronto will become the home of two annual music festivals, starting in 2005, among several other innovations. The TSO begins a new adventure in its 2004/5 season. It will be the first season under the full guidance of Peter Oundjian, on whom rest many expectations from the players, from various kinds of musical artists, and, very importantly, from the public. The latter group ranks highly because if the public is not satisfied, it will stay away, and without a public, an orchestra has no audience and no reason to exist.
Oundjian, therefore, must not only be able to produce a program that pleases a wide variety of musical tastes, he must not only be able to inspire his musicians to play at their very best, but he must also be able to schmooze with the public. Fortunately, the maestro is well aware that in North America we expect that our conductors are people friendly.
Born in Toronto, but educated in England, he now makes his home in Connecticut, where he holds a teaching position at Yale University. His musical accomplishments are many, and his conducting has received many accolades on three continents. Torontonians have been able to sample his skill as conductor and as public relations icon during the last season, in which he acted as music director designate. What we got to hear certainly pleased, . . .
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