Leonard Slatkin News

Conductor Leonard Slatkin's doctors have ordered him to cancel both of his scheduled appearances with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra this month as he recuperates from a heart attack he suffered on Nov.

By Mark Kanny , TRIBUNE-REVIEW CLASSICAL MUSIC CRITIC Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Last updated: 3:39 pm Pittsburgh Symphony principal guest conductor Leonard Slatkin will not lead the orchestra on Nov.

Leonard Slatkin, the music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and former music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, suffered a heart attack on Sunday while conducting a concert with the Rotterdam Philharmonic. He is recovering in a hospital in the Netherlands after an operation to insert two stents.

Slatkin, 65, was aware of chest pains during the afternoon performance, but was able to finish the concert -- Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3, with Lars Vogt, and Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 -- before going to the hospital. 'Maestro Slatkin feels great,' his manager said, according to a posting on the Rotterdam Philharmonic Web site, adding, 'he is getting the best of care.'

Maestro Manfred Honeck is crafting the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra into a graceful ensemble capable of the subtlest of Viennese nuances.

After conducting Aaron Copland's "El Salon Mexico" to open Friday night's Pittsburgh Symphony concert, conductor Leonard Slatkin turned to the audience - and though breathless - exulted in the all-American program for the evening.

By Mark Kanny , TRIBUNE-REVIEW CLASSICAL MUSIC CRITIC Wednesday, October 21, 2009 Last updated: 3:24 pm Photos click to enlarge William Caballero Alicia Dal Lago 'Made in America' Presented by: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; William Caballero, horn; Leonard Slatkin, conductor When: 8 p.m. Friday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday Admission: $17.50-$83 Where: Heinz ...

The Pittsburgh Symphony concert Friday night felt like a new start to the season, so refreshing was it to encounter two rewarding American scores - one of them a notable world premiere.

Mark Kanny can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7877. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra this week welcomes its composer of the year, Richard Danielpour, with the best of honors -- a world premiere.

Along with Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber was probably the most performed living American composer in the mid-20th Century, and several of his works remain concert hall staples.

On my short list of Detroit Symphony Orchestra concerts not to miss in the 2009-10 season, this weekend's program of Samuel Barber and Richard Strauss is right at the top.

Samuel Barber had one of the most unusual career trajectories of any American composer.

Several fascinating threads come together in this week's Detroit Symphony Orchestra concerts: new music by intriguing Russian-born composer Alla Borzova, a major symphony by Rachmaninoff that will morph into the first recording of the DSO and music director Leonard Slatkin for the Naxos label and an overdue DSO debut by guitarist Sharon Isbin.

Conductor Leonard Slatkin has been around the block a few times with Rachmaninoff.

It's six years, I discover, since I previously attended the last night of the Proms .

Officially launching the Con Brio Sligo Music Series 2009-2010 are front from left, Luisa McConville, Clr.

Can the fall seasons be starting already? Hard as it is to believe, we are already into the second week of September and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Detroit and the University Musical Society all kick off their 2009-10 seasons this weekend.

As he prepares for Friday night's opening of his first full season as music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin says the artistic building blocks are in place.

All things music from the Tennessean.com entertainment staff. Giancarlo Guerrero has his first concert as official musical director of the Nashville Symphony on Sept.

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra and its new music director, Leonard Slatkin, will kick off their first full season together by taking the music to the people in a series of free concerts around town Sept.

MEMORIES OF MAW: When Leonard Slatkin made his Music Academy of the West debut recently, conducting the summer festival's grand finale orchestra concert at The Granada, the last piece we heard in the concert, and for the season, was a grandiose cream puff of a symphony - Tchaikovsky 's Fourth .