'The Most Puzzling Music Director Departure Of Recent Years' - The Unanswered Question About Alan Gilbert And The New York Philharmonic

"Many pundits say he did all the right things - modern music, standard repertoire, plus staged operas. In a world that's being dazzled by high-personality Gustavo Dudamel and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the question is whether Gilbert did them right enough, with the personal magnetism to pull it off. Or with a fighting spirit, which, he suggested in exit interviews, was in shorter supply." Or, asks David Patrick Stearns, "might the unanswered question be, at least in part, the New York Philharmonic?"

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