In April 2013, the orchestra's illustrious music director, Osmo Vänskä, informed management that he would resign in September if the dispute led to the cancellation of the orchestra's highly anticipated concerts at New York's Carnegie Hall, scheduled for November.
Nor, contrary to hype, were conductorless chamber orchestras new when Orpheus began its illustrious career in 1972; the Prague Chamber Orchestra, for one, had been around for years (and still is).
He is its 10th conductor, following illustrious predecessors like Eugene Ormandy (pre-Philadelphia Orchestra), Dimitri Mitropoulos (pre-New York Philharmonic) and Antal Dorati (pre-Detroit Symphony).
One of the most important events is a concert (featuring the Cello Concerto and the "Holiday Overture") with the superb Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, fronted by two illustrious advocates for Carter's music: the conductor Oliver Knussen and the cellist Fred Sherry.
Nézet-Séguin suceeds Christoph Eschenbach with an orchestra that has had such illustrious leaders as Leopold Stokowski, Eugene Ormandy and Riccardo Muti.
It was one of the strangest artistic own goals of recent times when the Concertgebouw Orchestra managed to alienate their most illustrious living conductor, Bernard Haitink, by failing to involve him in their 125th anniversary celebrations a couple of seasons ago.
1936 Toscanini Thrills Paris Crowd Electrified by Arturo Toscanini's magnetism, the fashionable audience which filled to capacity the Salle Pleyel last night [June 15] applauded the illustrious maestro so enthusiastically that he asked the orchestra to rise a number of times after the concert.
The orchestra's present plight seems to suggest that after a long and illustrious stay at the Cologne Philharmonie, he suddenly can't buy a break.
The creative tension here was provided by the friendly buddy act that went on between Alan Gilbert, who will step down as the Philharmonic's music director, in 2017, and Esa-Pekka Salonen, the illustrious Finnish composer-conductor, who is just beginning a three-year term as the orchestra's composer-in-residence.
