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...Central European classical repertoire as a kind of competition course, with each one eager to put his stamp on the Beethoven symphonies or the Stravinsky ballets and thus climb the career ladder. "When I was a student in New York, you could hear orchestras playing diverse repertoires," Leonard Slatkin, music director of the St. Louis Symphony, told the Symphony League convention. "There is now a common repertoire. The overuse of a repertoire results in a malaise and an ennui among your audience...
...self-governing orchestra. Salonen, whose photogenic, blond good looks are sure to be an asset in image-conscious Los Angeles, is even more adventurous. "The Salonen appointment in Los Angeles indicates an orchestra possibly trying to change the image of what an orchestra might be about," says Leonard Slatkin, 45, the innovative conductor of the St. Louis Symphony...
...music," says Gideon Toeplitz, vice president and managing director of the Pittsburgh Symphony. "The conductor needs sex appeal." Conductors themselves are well aware of the new realities. "Most orchestras today go for someone who is well before the public eye to assure ticket sales and recording contracts," says Leonard Slatkin, 44, who recently re-upped with the St. Louis Symphony but has not closed the door to a draft...
...Behind Slatkin is a group of younger conductors seeking their break into the big leagues. Among them: Finland's Esa-Pekka Salonen, 30, principal conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony; England's Simon Rattle, 34, who leads the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Britain; and Russian-born Semyon Bychkov, 36, who this month will jump from the Buffalo Philharmonic to the Orchestre de Paris. All must wait until a death or a retirement creates an opening in the front ranks...
...game isn't over yet," says Slatkin. "There will be other changes. These three changes will engender more." In the high-stakes game of musical chairs that got under way last week, the more things change, the more they will stay the same...