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Upping sticks

Jacob Nissly isn’t used to all the media attention. It’s not the that has discombobulated him, it’s the which just hours earlier has run a story that San Francisco Symphony (SFS) music director Esa-Pekka Salonen is stepping down, citing differences of ambition between him and the orchestra’s board.

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