GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. conductor Kent Nagano feels he lives in three worlds - his native California, his ancestral Japan and the Europe of the music he conducts. But his spirit is on a surfboard in ...

Conducting titles at the world’s top orchestras are often convoluted and mystifying. In the case of Sweden’s Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, a newly announced leadership change is baffling even by ...

The evening began at Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall with guests paying homage to Kent Nagano as if he were royalty, and ended with more than 200 guests serenading him on plastic kazoos. If one thing was ...

Ask Grammy Award-winning conductor Kent Nagano about retirement, and his mind immediately goes to a quote from his friend, opera singer Placido Domingo. “A reporter asked, ‘Gee, Mr. Domingo, you’re of ...

This has been a busy few days in terms of conductor chat. In case you missed these bulletins elsewhere, here’s the good, the not-so-good and the ugly: GOOD: Juanjo Mena, the dynamic Spanish conductor ...

Nagano, 62, is not alone among prominent musicians in having a passion that seems at odds with metronomes and music scores: the late Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan loved fast cars and opera ...

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