This week’s picture portfolio from the Boston Symphony Orchestra of music director Andris Nelsons show a leader painfully reduced in size.
Formerly substantial, the Latvian is now a fraction of his former self.
The transformation seems somewhat extreme. Here’s how he looked last November.
And this is three years ago.
It’s a concern.
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