Maestro quits in Alan Gilbert huff

Maestro quits in Alan Gilbert huff

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norman lebrecht

December 09, 2017

Thomas Hengelbrock, music director of Hamburg’s NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, says he’s leaving the job a year early in protest at the tremendous fuss made by the organisation over Alan Gilbert’s arrival.

‘It was extremely unpleasant of the NDR to announce my successor in a week when I had ten concerts to conduct,’ Hengelbrock complained to local media.

He will leave in summer 2018, instead of 2019.

 

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