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Leonard Slatkin’s Conducting School, Lesson Ten: Getting On and Off the Stage
Read moreJuly 15, 2017
In this month’s Conducting School video, Maestro Slatkin explains the basics of stage deportment at the beginning and end of a concert.
Future lessons will be posted here, and will also be available on his YouTube channel, on the 15th of every month.
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Rave Reviews for DSO’s Copland Release on Naxos
Read moreJuly 13, 2017
The Detroit Symphony’s latest release on the Naxos label is Aaron Copland’s iconic Symphony No. 3, recorded with the composer’s original coda intact. Reviews of the new recording have been overwhelmingly positive, with critics admiring Maestro Slatkin’s pacing, the orchestral balance, and the poignant, expressive playing of the DSO musicians.
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DSO Heads to Asia after a Free Send-Off Concert Sunday
Read moreJuly 7, 2017
On July 11, the DSO departs on its historic Asia Tour 2017, a trip that will include the orchestra’s debut performances in China and its first visit to Japan in 19 years. Leonard Slatkin will conduct the DSO in eleven concerts from July 14 to 29, from Tokyo to Shanghai, marking his first overseas tour with the orchestra and the DSO’s first international tour since Europe in October 2001.
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JULY 2017
Read moreIt is very likely that those of you reading this want to know all about the Cliburn competition. Normally, I would have led with that, but on a more personal, as well as musical level, there was a more important day that took place for me.
After six successful years, I led my final concert as music director of the ONL. That is not meant as a boast, but is simply a fact. When I first arrived in Lyon, the orchestra and its administration were facing a great deal of unrest. There was a controversy regarding a cancelled Japanese tour. The management was changing personnel, and the entire institution was under the threat of severe budget cuts.
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Leonard Slatkin’s Conducting School, Lesson Nine: The Use of Your Body to Indicate Dynamics
Read moreJune 15, 2017
In this ninth installment of the Conducting School series, Maestro Slatkin delves into how the conductor conveys dramatic intensity and emotion by using the left hand and the rest of the body.
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JUNE 2017
Read moreYEE-HAW!!!
Greetings from Fort Worth, Texas, where I am serving as Chairman of the Jury for the Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. But that opening yell was not just about yellow roses. As you will read later, it became the calling cry for my French orchestra.
May started off with my next-to-last trip as music director of the ONL. It hardly feels as if six years have passed since I began my post in France’s second city. The time has flown by, and we have all accomplished a great deal together. Even with regime changes in our administration, we have all grown, and we enjoy a great reputation throughout the world.
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Slatkin Is Jury Chairman of the Cliburn Competition in Fort Worth
Read moreMay 25, 2017
Widely considered one of the top music contests on the planet, the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition attracts the best pianists ages 18 to 30. Leonard Slatkin serves as chairman of the jury that will evaluate 30 carefully selected competitors May 25 through June 10, 2017. For the first time, the entire competition will be streamed live to fans around the world.
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Leonard Slatkin’s Conducting School, Lesson Eight: Placement of the Orchestra
Read moreMay 15, 2017
In this month’s conducting lesson, Maestro Slatkin explains the placement of instruments in the orchestra relative to the conductor’s position onstage.
Future lessons will be posted here, and will also be available on his YouTube channel, on the 15th of every month.
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Slatkin and the DSO to Perform Beethoven’s Ninth
Read moreMay 13, 2017
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra will perform two unforgettable works in a weekend of concerts conducted by Music Director Leonard Slatkin: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, including the famed “Ode to Joy” last movement, and John Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man song cycle, inspired by the lyrics of Nobel Prize-winning musician and poet Bob Dylan.
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Orchestre National de Lyon Tours Germany and the Netherlands
Read moreMay 2, 2017
The Orchestre National de Lyon is embarking on a tour of Germany and the Netherlands May 3-14 under the direction of Leonard Slatkin, with guest soloists Hilary Hahn performing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto and Cameron Carpenter playing Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.