Details are continuing to emerge in the sordid tale of Pinchas Zukerman’s abrupt “sabbatical” from Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, and the divisive and outspoken Zukerman appears to have left behind a divided orchestra. “While it’s not unusual for orchestra musicians to have varying opinions about their leader, some longtime NACO musicians say they’ve become polarized in a way they have never been before… The kind of reasonable debate musicians used to have about conductors has become difficult.” Furthermore, some within the NACO are openly acknowledging that the orchestra’s artistic standard has diminished under a conductor they see as authoritarian and uninterested in expanding his artistic horizons.