“With two more conductors sidelined, here and in Europe, just weeks after Andris Nelsons and Christoph Eschenbach bowed out of Tanglewood performances, the classical music world is compiling an injury list that rivals Major League Baseball,” reports Allan Kozinn in the ArtsBeat column of Friday’s (8/9) New York Times. “James Conlon has withdrawn from engagements at Ravinia, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s summer home, and in the La Jolla area of San Diego, because he is having surgery to remove an inflamed section of his colon caused by diverticulitis.… The Ravinia concerts have been canceled. The Los Angeles Opera, which is presenting the La Jolla concert as a part of a Britten festival, has not announced whether Mr. Conlon (who is also the opera company’s music director) would be replaced.… In Lucerne, meanwhile, Pierre Boulez, who is the artistic director of the Lucerne Festival Academy, has withdrawn from festival concerts on Sept. 7 and Sept. 9 because of a fractured shoulder. He is, however, expected to be present for the rehearsals…The Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado will lead those performances in Mr. Boulez’s place.” Earlier in July, Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, cancelled her conducting schedule for the month after spraining her right wrist.
Posted August 9, 2013
