This message came in from Montreal:
The Orchestre Classique de Montréal (OCM) announces the departure of its Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, Maestro Jacques Lacombe. Over the past season, the OCM is proud to have been able to count on the services of Maestro Lacombe, who shared his passion and talent with the musicians and audiences alike.
That’s it. No explanation, no word of a successor. Just: we fired the chief.
Lacombe offers this account on his social media:
“Over the past year, several employees and ex-employees have informed me of the existence of a harmful work climate imposed by the management style of the general director within the orchestra’s administration. The members of the Board of Directors, notably through their inaction, tolerated this situation which even recently led to the resignation of two members of the administrative team. This is all the more unfortunate since the general manager also has several good qualities and good growth potential which he does not seem to wish to promote, nor thus aspire to the rigor and excellence which should be the trademark of the CMO. On the other hand, numerous actions and decisions contrary to recognized good practices in the professional environment in which I have been operating for nearly 40 years were made by the general manager, some of these actions and decisions even significantly encroaching on my prerogatives of artistic director.”
And we thought Canadians were meant to be the nice guys.
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