Boston gives Tanglewood to trusted violist
OrchestrasThe Boston Symphony Orchestra has appointed Ed Gazouleas to run Tanglewood Music Center this summer by Ed Gazouleas.
A violist in the Boston Symphony for 24 years and now Provost at the Curtis Institute of Music, Ed is considered a claming influence on an institution that has been rattled by the last regime.
He says: ‘To me, Tanglewood is a dream of art and nature, so I am thrilled and honored to return to the festival this summer to serve as Interim Director of the Tanglewood Music Center. Every summer fine young musicians arrive seeking instruction and inspiration and I am looking forward to welcoming them once again. I invite our growing community of friends and patrons alike to come experience these exciting young artists perform an enormous variety of music this summer.’
There is also an Interim Senior Director of Public Relations & Communications, called Jan Devereux.
This needs proof-reading: both the first sentence and “claming”.
Ed is an AMAZING hire. A consummate musician, a true professional in every sense of the word, and a deeply supportive person who actively works to lift students into professional life with joy, discipline, and compassion. So happy to see this news!
A positive development, to be sure. That said, it will take some time to fully undo the damage done by the “last regime.”
He is the best friend of the President of Curtis. He got hired as the assistant to the President but then changed his own title to Artistic Director of Curtis when he arrived. Curtis must be a pushover institution. As a teacher, he is mediocre and only offers Boston symphony bowings and no insight. His students at Indiana are also not good.
Sorry, but I have seen him teach and heard many of his students and this statement in not remotely accurate. He is just the right person to assume this interim role and bring stable, wise leadership in uncertain times.
You sound like you have skin in the game and, at the same time, are poorly informed.
Mr. Gazouleas is a wonderful teacher and his students fill orchestral viola sections across the United States.
please actually name any student of his in any top orchestras across the united states. he was actually never hired as viola faculty at curtis but kind of forced his way in first as an admin. at indiana, yikes no one special there.
Well, there are don’t great violist leaders. Deborah Borda is one! Let’s wish this man well!
Ah, to be a claming influence
Perhaps you might want to fix the wording of the first sentence – “The Boston Symphony Orchestra has appointed Ed Gazouleas to run Tanglewood Music Center this summer by Ed Gazouleas.” I think we get the point that Mr. Gazouleas has been hired.
Perhaps you might want to fix the typo in the second sentence: “….Ed is considered a claming influence…”
Pretty embarrassing to release this statement without cursory editing.
Poorly written and spelled: “the Boston Symphony Orchestra has appointed Ed Gazouleas to run Tanglewood Music Center this summer by Ed Gazouleas.”
“Ed is considered a claming influence…. .”
You can do better!
A few clams went into writing that blurb of a story. Running TMC is more than full-time, so how is he going to do that and work at the Curtis?
It’s always good to have a “claming” influence.
“a claming influence”
When i was boy, a “clam” was a wrong note.
Jazz great Quincy Jones calls them “anchovies.”
When you are a claming influence, the world is your oyster.