Eschenbach’s Bumpy First Year In Philly

Christophe Eschenbach has been music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra for a year. So how’s it going? “The orchestra’s board and members are thrilled with Eschenbach’s energetic community profile, his fund-raising success, his congenial personality. But a cloud of doubt hangs over the music-making. Eschenbach’s relationship with the players, some inside and outside the orchestra have said, has been slow to jell.”