Air France pilot saves Paris orchestra
NewsThe conductor Daniel Harding, who is taking off on a second career with Air France, has just parachuted in to save a Paris concert after its music director fell sick.
I am so sorry that I am unable to conduct @OrchestreParis tonight and tomorrow, after having come down with flu during rehearsals. Thank you to everyone for their best wishes and even bigger thanks to @djharding for stepping in at the last moment!
— Klaus Mäkelä (@klausmakela) October 13, 2021
Finn flies flu to Paris Orchestra
Aw man, who you kiddin’, you don’t come down with the “flu” “during” rehearsals, you were already not feeling well before visible symptoms appear, and it probably isn’t the “flu”, which means, you shoulda stayed home to begin with.
Harding must feel like Batman — the philharmonie calls him on the bat phone, or he looks up in the night sky, and there it is, the bat signal — flying in to save the day…or the night.
And from what Med School did you get your degree? More people these days know all about diseases, treatments, etc. which they learned from Internet U.
Total BS
They also changed the program- Firebird an La Mere instead of Shostakovich 7. Pity.
Shosty 7 is fun to hear live, but the replacement pieces are superior music in every way IMHO
Shosty 7 has THE BEST snare drum part.
I’ve never heard “La Mere” [sic].
That must refer to Debussy’s mother, known as Victorine Manoury…
Absolutely true.
Fasten your seatbelts, you’re in for a bumpy ride.
Daniel Harding who stayed a very short time in Paris continues to come back frequently there. it’s very rare for a musical director who didn’t stay a long time. A curious case.
He said he wasn’t the right music director for that orchestra, not that he didn’t like them. So maybe a fine friend but not a suitable spouse.
Yes you are right; he didn’t leave the orchestra with troubles but… it was very strange to stay a moment so short when you are a musical director.
My fly on the wall told me that he was literally dropped on the roof of the Philharmonie but had difficulty getting down, so that the fire brigade had to be called.
I love that his Twitter handle is “djharding”. Sounds like he has another career in him.