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    Norman Lebrecht on Music

    Apr 29, 2021 3 minutes

    IT NEVER FAILS TO AMAZE ME how little the appointment of a chief conductor affects the general performance and perception of an orchestra.

    Take, as a case history, the New York Philharmonic. America’s premier gateway for musical talent, founded in 1842, the Philharmonic has not picked the right conductor since Leonard Bernstein threw himself under its wheels in 1957 and came up with enough razzle-dazzle to magnetize a new generation. People are going into care homes these days still singing the themes from his Young People’s Concerts. Lenny welded an orchestra to a city and its rising

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