Word: blomstedt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...justified by the "Darkness" sobriquet. Harbison rejected his first draft as too light in mood, but the symphony now ends diffidently rather than blackly. Without firm cadences to rely on, audiences have trouble enough knowing when a new piece is over; at the first performance, skillfully conducted by Herbert Blomstedt, it was not immediately clear when the last light had flickered...
...orchestras of Cleveland, Baltimore, Detroit, Houston, San Francisco and Utah have filled conductorial vacancies, and at least seven other U.S. ensembles are searching. Cleveland, Detroit and San Francisco were forced to reach outside the narrow circle of superstars for Christoph von Dohnányi, Gunther Herbig and Herbert Blomstedt, Europeans relatively obscure to U.S. audiences. Others have breached the prejudice against Americans, as Baltimore did in hiring David Zinman...