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Maestro gets a pat on the butt from baseball hero

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norman lebrecht

January 22, 2017

Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers stepped up to open the Detroit Symphony’s Mozart season.

Then he got familiar with the music director, Leonard Slatkin.

Watch here.

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Mark Mortimer says:

January 22, 2017 at 1:14 pm

I’ve great admiration for Slatkin’s conducting ability. Frequently inspired on a good night. Best Tchaikovsky Pathetique I ever heard with him & the Philharmonia some years ago.

But he’s not renowned for his sense of humour (just ask the BBC Symphony) so its good to see him letting his hair down & taking it like a man.

M2N2K says:

January 23, 2017 at 7:32 pm

After having worked with him on many occasions for over three decades, my opinion of him as a conductor is still the same: knowledgeable and competent, but rarely inspired and even rarer if ever inspiring. However, he has always been and remains a good storyteller with a fine sense of humor.

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Patrick says:

January 22, 2017 at 1:37 pm

I thought he was conducting Nielsen’s 3rd Symphony!

John Borstlap says:

January 22, 2017 at 2:06 pm

I try to imagine how such gesture would have gone down with Herbert von Karajan.

John says:

January 23, 2017 at 4:36 am

Lighten up, John

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Sixtus says:

January 23, 2017 at 5:26 pm

There are several conductors of major orchestras who probably would not mind at all such attention from a jock. Nor would I.

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