Conductor takes fourth wife, way to go
mainIn a signal demonstration of hope over experience, Leonard Slatkin has simultaneously signed a new contract in Detroit and a new wife, Cindy McTee, his fourth.
(photo: cindymctee.com)
He may be approaching a record for the profession. Felix Weingartner married five times. Can anyone top that?
Well for a start there’s Andre Previn – married five times, to Betty Bennett, Dory Langdon, Mia Farrow, Heather Sneddon and Anne-Sophie Mutter. He’s still got time for more, presumably.
Edo de Waart (known I believe as Edo Divorce) is on his 6th marriage.
I believe his 5th relationship was with Mezzo Soprano Susan Graham, and it lasted for 6 years before he married Rebecca Dopp, a soprano.
In Minneapolis when Edo de Waart was music director, there were bumper stickers which said “HONK IF YOU HAVE BEEN MARRIED TO EDO DE WAART”
Ah, the triumph of hope over experience…! Some men just function better married: he may be one of them.
Charles Dutoit and Bernard Haitink are both on their fourth. And of course Mutter and Previn have split up now, meaning Previn is on track for number six.
I don’t believe this is correct (about Dutoit, I don’t know Haitink). Assertions should be backed up by details…
It is correct!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dutoit
Ruth Cury
Martha Argerich
Marie-Josée Drouin
Chantale Juillet
The Russian conductor Yuri Simonov finally settled down with his SEVENTH wife Olga Muzyka. Everyone said he finally married “music”…
A mere three marriages for Andrew Davis, chaste lad that he is.
And I thought Simon Rattle was a tough husband, running away with Kozena; only his third!
Hi –
Makes me think about composers – which ones had the most wives?
And which ones had none — Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Gershwin…
Was Handel also “single?”
Interested?
Then of course, who had the most kids. Can anyone top Bach?
Thanks,
Beth Greenberg
New York City
Those conductors are rich. Some of them make their money as train conductors.
divorces are painful. some people should realize they are not marriage material.