The chauvinistic bent of foreign conductors may be understandable, but I think Mr. Jarvi could have chosen better.
He introduced foreign conductors (imagine it - there hadn't been any), and foreign orchestras, and made different patterns for the programmes.
Additional funds for training have also been allocated, and Mr. Chen, the orchestra manager, has arranged for a steady stream of foreign conductors to work with the symphony.
As he changed the culture within the orchestra, Mr. Gillison struck up relationships with foreign conductors and musicians, who eventually came to play with the London Symphony almost exclusively when they visited London.
Mr. Kowalke, an outspoken advocate for the advancement of a younger generation of American conductors and composers, said that Mr. Maazel's appointment -- coupled with the recent wooing of foreign conductors by other top American orchestras -- could be read like a sign on the door: "Young American conductors need not apply".
Beecham's relations with foreign conductors were often excellent.
During his chief conductorship, prestigious foreign conductors and orchestras began to perform regularly at the Proms.
And, unlike every foreign-born conductor in an American post today, Bernstein did not need an artistic adviser on staff to tell him what to do.
This doesn't mean that foreign singers & conductors be engaged.
Many of the programmes that attracted the best houses, like those of the foreign orchestras and conductors - Rattle and the Berlin Phil, Jansons and the Bavarian Radio, Haitink and the Dresden Staatskapelle - would pull in large numbers of London concertgoers at any time of the year.
Other examples include "China's foreign policy" and "the orchestra's conductor".
