Job of the Week: Choose your own conductor
OrchestrasThe Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale of San Francisco need an executive director to help pick a successor to Richard Egarr (pic).
The next Executive Director of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale will bring administrative leadership to an internationally recognized ensemble with a rich history of artistic accomplishment as the organization builds on that success, recalibrates its operations, and sets bold new artistic goals for the years ahead. The ED will join the organization at a critical decision time as Philharmonia selects and appoints a new Music Director. The ED will have the opportunity to forge a partnership with the new Music Director in developing an artistic vision for the future.
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PBO will need to look very hard to find someone as good as Richard Egarr. I suspect that (like Carlos Kleiber) he is an ecstatic. His performances are inspired and inspirational. I’m really looking forward to his concert with the LPO in the Queen Elizabeth Hall next January.
Nobody knows better who their conductor should be than the musicians themselves! Administers and trustees are not qualified!!!
Roger Rocco wrote, “Nobody knows better who their conductor should be than the musicians themselves!”
I’m inclined to agree. Self-governing orchestras like the Vienna Philharmonic and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment have made good decisions over many years. And their policy of NOT having a Principal Conductor doesn’t seem to have had any disadvantages.
Maybe church musicians, such as cathedral organists, should be chosen by choir members, not by deans and precentors?
The current fiasco at Winchester seems to lend eloquent support to this suggestion.
They are marvelous.