Klaus Mäkelä was hired Tuesday to succeed Riccardo Muti as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and will become the youngest head since its start in 1891.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 3:30PMLive streaming newscasts, breaking news, weather & original, local programming.Klaus Mäkelä was hired Tuesday to succeed Riccardo Muti as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and will become the youngest head since its start in 1891.
"It's just something which I don't think about," Mäkelä said during an interview with The Associated Press. "I was just reminded when I started in Amsterdam that I'm actually not even young, Mengelberg was 24 when he started." "What I like about Chicago Symphony is there is quite a big part of it which still sounds like it sounded with Reiner," Mäkelä said."When you conduct an orchestra for the first time, it's somehow a chemistry thing," Mäkelä said. "I felt that, OK, this orchestra they were willing to go to places with me which I had not had done with other orchestras.""You said, 'Good morning.
Mäkelä's hiring comes at a time when several other major U.S. institutions have upcoming podium vacancies, including the Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Opera and San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. As music director of a U.S. orchestra, Mäkelä's role will include a fundraising component.
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