Update on conductor Leonard Slatkin's recovery from heart attack
Leonard Slatkin, the dynamic American conductor who recently became music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra after a long tenure with Washington's National Symphony, is still on the mend from a heart attack earlier this month in Holland.
The Detroit Free Press reports: "He’s back in America with his doctors and they’ve said, 'Go rest and come back at the end of November and we’ll do a check-up,' " said Slatkin’s manager R. Douglas Sheldon. "We anticipate this will go smoothly and he’ll be back on the podium soon." Slatkin, 65, is now expected to return to the podium in Detroit during the second week of December.
As a little get-well wish for a conductor I greatly admire, especially for his enthusiastic devotion to American music (classical and classy pop alike), here he is at the 2004 Last Night of the Proms in London, leading an endearing performance by baritone Thomas Allen of a song I hope Slatkin will be singing to himself real soon:
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Very happy to hear that the not-so-old boy is on the mend -- we don't need him shuffling off this mortal coil anytime soon. While I'm thrilled that Eschenbach is coming to the NSO, I really enjoyed having Maestro Slatkin so close to home for a little while (I was admittedly sad to see him head to Detroit -- and the Free Press' critic is a numbskull, IMHumO).
:-)
Everyone's a critic. TIM
Posted by: Doug Halfen | November 15, 2009 1:12 AM