Vienna Phil ignored Barenboim for 24 years
NewsAn outstandingly dull press conference for the New Year’s Day concert yielded one worthwhile item of information.
The Vienna Philharmonic chairman Daniel Froschauer recalled the Danel Barenboim, who is conducting New Years Day for the third time, made his debut with the orchestra in Salzburg as a pianist in 1965.
Although he became a full-time conductor a decade later, Vienna did not invite him to conduct them until 1989 – by which time he had been music director in Paris and was now in Berlin.
What took them so long?
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