More than ever, the unexpected has become the lot of festivals and concert halls.
Director for twenty-two years of the Lucerne Festival which he made a major meeting, Michael Haefliger has just learned the hard way.
What do we do, in fact, when Yannick Nézet-Séguin, musical director of the New York Met and the Philadelphia Orchestra, cancels his visit to the shores of Lake Lucerne at the last moment?
Knowing that he was to lead the Festival Orchestra, founded in 2003 for Claudio Abbado, an annual meeting of elite soloists who are the pride of the event and represent a kind of Olympus of orchestral life.
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Two different solutions for the two concerts intended for the Quebec conductor.
For the first, the orchestra played without a conductor: we were not there, with regret because the witnesses speak of it with tremolos in their voices.
Not enough to reassure the maestros who wonder more and more if they are essential!
For the second, we called in a replacement: no
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