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Just in: Chicago to tour Europe with used NY conductor

Just in: Chicago to tour Europe with used NY conductor

Someone explain this to me.

The Chicago Symphony has announced a Eurtope tour with Jaap Van Zweden, former music director of the NY Philharmonic.

He was not a success in NY. Why are Chicago running him up their flagpole?

Will this enhance Chicago’s image abroad?

You decide.

CHICAGO — The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) makes a five-city, eight-concert European tour with internationally acclaimed conductor Jaap van Zweden (May 14-23) that marks their first international tour together. Jaap van Zweden has conducted the CSO regularly since his 2008 debut with the Orchestra and has led critically hailed performances of music by Gustav Mahler during these engagements, including his first CSO appearance at the Ravinia Festival in a 2012 performance of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony. Prior to the European tour, van Zweden will lead CSO performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 (April 17-19) and Symphony No. 6 (May 8-9) at Symphony Center in Chicago.

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