The Philadelphia Inquirer sends not one, but two music critics to follow the Philadelphia Orchestra’s first European tour with music music director Christophe Eschenbach. The tour had mixed success, they report: “it’s unfortunate that in the orchestra’s cycle of touring, Europe coincided with Eschenbach’s first season. Europe is key to the orchestra’s international reputation. Too bad the relationship between Eschenbach and the orchestra hadn’t evolved over several seasons before they faced Vienna, London and Amsterdam. If what I heard in Madrid is what we’ll be hearing in the future, critics as well as audiences would have been more enthusiastic. As it is, the orchestra’s reputation has been somewhat damaged. How bad is it? How difficult is this damage to undo?”