Five music directors share the same stage
NewsThe Toronto Symphony Orchestra has had only 10 music directors in its 99-year history.
Five of them were on stage last night, conducting the TSO.
How many can you name?
photo: Jag Gundu/TSO
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L to R: Peter Oundjian, Andrew Davis, Gunther Herbig, Jukka Pekka Saraste, Gustavo Gimeno
From left to right : Peter Oundjian, Sir Andrew Davis, Günther Herbig, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Gustavo Gimeno.
Andrew Davis, Gunther Herbig, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Peter Oundjian, and Gustavo Gimeno.
Others: Seiji Ozawa still alive but not there. Victor Feldbrill died not long ago. Karl Ancerl (died 1973).
Not sure who the other two are.
Sir Ernest MacMillan
Though the TSO Wikipedia page lists Victor Feldbrill among their Music Directors, his own page has him as Resident Conductor.
Oundjian, Davis, Herbig, Saraste, Gimeno.
It’s nice to see the criminally underrated Günther Herbig return. I believe he was the first to do a complete Mahler cycle in Toronto.
It‘s nice to see the criminally underrated Gunther Herbig return. He was the first to do a complete Mahler cycle in Toronto, I believe.
My understanding is that Heinz Unger had conducted a complete Mahler cycle in Toronto in the ’50’s and ’60’s with an orchestra made up of the Toronto Symphony and CBC Orchestra. Perhaps someone can confirm.
That is correct. The cbc symphony was the Canadian broadcasting orchestra and they made up the extra players needed
I meant Günther, of course
Sir Andrew, and Seijj Ozawa (not pictured). I feel I should know the one on the right, but I don’t.
Seiji Ozawa was principal conductor of the Boston Symphony for years.
The best, Karel Ančerl is missing (for obvious reasons)
Peter Oundjian, Andrew Davis,
Günther Herbig, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Gustavo Gimeno
Gunter Herbig and Andrew Davies is all I know or can recognise.
From left to right: Peter Oundjian; Sir Andrew Davis, Gunther Herbig, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, and their current MD Gustavo Gimeno. What’s the prize, Norman?
In the photo, Sir Andrew Davis (who else?) Günther Herbig and Jukka-Pekka Saraste. Not in the photo are Peter Oundjian and Gustavo Gimeno. I know that because I have ESP.
From left to right:
Peter Oundjian, Andrew Davis, Günther Herbig, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Gustavo Gimeno
Sneezy, Droopy, Crusty, Musty and Moe?
Walter Susskind led the TSO from 1956 to 1965.
The headline made me think of how MDs tend not to hang around very long. Not so with the Cleveland Orchestra. Five conductors takes you back to 1946, 1933 if you leave out the 3 year anomaly of Leinsdorf. Maybe this is why TCO has such a beautiful, cultivated, and recognizable sound.
Truly a league of distinguished gentlemen…..Peter Oundjian,Sir Andrew,Günther Herbig,Jukka Pekka,Gustavo Gimeno….Only Sejii is missing……Too frail to travel,i believe.
Hard to tell. I only see 3 white men in the photo on this page.
The diversity is astounding.
All men!