American baton makes Boston debut, thanks to visa chaos

American baton makes Boston debut, thanks to visa chaos

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norman lebrecht

October 20, 2021

The rising American conductor Roderick Cox is being given an unexpected opportunity to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in mid-November after the Dutcjman Ton Koopman failed to get a visa.

Cox, who won the 2018 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award, has dates lined up in Munich, Seattle and Cincinnati, but Boston is a big break.

He is managed by AskonasHolt out of London.

In other US visa fallout, British pianist Nicolas Hodges has had to pull out of a Seattle Symphoy Saint-Saens concerto. His replacement is NY-based Alessio Bax.

 

 

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