The Met names new concertmaster
NewsThe Metropolitan Opera has appointed Juilliard graduate Angela Wee as Associate Concertmaster of its orchestra.
New York born, she studied with Donald Weilerstein and Masao Kawasaki at Juilliard and was concertmaster of the college orchestra.
She auditioned for the Met the day after her return from a six-week Asian tour with the London Symphony Orchestra and its departing music director (pictured).
I recorded Angela when she was 16, and I remember thinking what a fantastic talent she was at that time. No surprise!
She is indeed a big talent!
That’s incorrect and you should retract both the headline and the article. She is the new PRINCIPAL ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER. This was the chair held by Laura Hamilton.
Cool. Now all we need is to get people to care.
You go girl!
Sam would know – he is a cellist in the Met Orchestra.
Not anymore!
Is that the orchestra for the insurance company or the museum?
I’m sure that there is some places in the world, like Bogota or Bangladesh, where people wouldn’t mind having to count 752 bars of rests as they walk to the vending machine.
What are the duties of an associate concertmaster?
I don’t know, but it sounds all very official, kinda like being a mall cop. They take their jobs VERY seriously…bless their little souls.
Whom is she replacing? (Forgive my ignorance.)
Sam’s post contains the answer to your question.
Probably someone who plays musically.
Who is the unnamed dude?
Looks like Sir Simon Rattle, LSO, Berlin, and CBSO.
Why not use the traditional British, gender-neutral term, ‘Leader’?
Because she’s playing in an American orchestra, and we don’t use that term.