The Chicago Symphony has announced that Esteban Batallán is returning as its principal trumpet, ‘following the conclusion of a one-year leave from the Orchestra’.
What is doesn’t say is that Batallán joined the Philadelphia Orchestra, with a blazing fanfare, but things did not turn out well.
Neither orchestra is saying another word.
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