London concertmaster leaves US orchestra
mainIt has been announced in North Carolina that Christopher Warren-Green, 65, is stepping down this summer as music director of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra.
A former leader of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Warren-Green maintains his own London Chamber Orchestra and is a regular performer at Royal occasions, lastly at the wedding of Harry and Meghan.
If this is meant to begin a thread about what we think about MM, then let it begin!
I like her. Does that piss you off?
Charlotte is in North Carolina.
The same city where the public arts fund apologized for supporting the symphony orchestra? Coincidence?
Yes. Let it go already.
Why is he identified here as “London concertmaster” when the story is about the Charlotte Symphony? Shouldn’t the headline be: “Charlotte Symphony Music Director to Step Down?”
What an odd headline. Yes Christopher Warren-Green plays the violin and has held top concertmaster/leader posts, but an American orchestra’s concertmaster is not leaving, its conductor is. Once a concertmaster always [just] a concertmaster?
And for royalty watchers (yawn) he also conducted for the marriage of Prince Charles and Camilla, as well as for the Queen’s birthday concert.
I watched that one and the musical selections were very strange…
Yawn. “Dog bites man” story. A music director from the UK steps down from his American job. Maybe he’s tired of commuting. Maybe he’s “accomplished all his goals at the CSO.”
Stories like this one drop every week. Conductors do move around. Nothing to see here, folks, move on.
The wildly tangential connection to Megan and Mr Markle…. er, Harry will attract a few extra clicks, I guess.