A Perennial Question Arises Again: Why Won’t More Major American Orchestras Hire American Music Directors?

Before Leonard Bernstein, it was a given that U.S. orchestras wanted their maestros to be European. Yet by 2008, American conductors were music directors in Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis and D.C. Today only one of those jobs is held by an American. – The New York Times

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