Carnegie Hall is one of the world’s great concert halls. So everyone is wondering what London Symphony Orchestra manager Clive Gillinson – a “London orchestral musician, raised on grit and gruel, bring to this lavish, long-running party? Personal qualities apart – and Gillinson has been head-hunted, to my knowledge, by at least six of the top US musical institutions – he will add a dimension of difference, a whiff ofrenewal, which is exactly what is needed.”