Breaking: Boston renews Andris Nelsons indefinitely

The Boston Symphony has, after ten years, converted Andris Nelsons’ employment to a rolling contract, meaning he could stay music director forever. Nelsons has also been named Head of Conducting at Tanglewood.

The BSO has also appointed Carlos Simon to its new Composer Chair, ‘working together with BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons and President and CEO Chad Smith to animate the BSO programming, including new compositions, educational initiatives, artist-curated programs, and humanities programming presented in partnership with the newly-announced Boston Symphony Orchestra Humanities Institute.’

‘The humanities allow us to understand ourselves better, understand each other better, and understand our world better,” says Chad Smith. “Our work at the BSO is already a part of the humanities, and the music that we play on our stages can be further informed by explorations of these related topics. With the launch of our new Humanities Institute, we invite scholars, artists, and activists to come and help us create throughlines in the works that we are performing, examining what connects this music with ideas and audiences of today.’

Let’s see.