Wanted: Detroit’s New Music Director

The Detroit Symphony is looking for a new music director. What kind of person should that be? “Every music director brings his own agenda, his own interests. They are all conductors first. Thirty years ago, that was enough. Now we expect them to be ambassadors as well, and in many different ways, raising money, speaking before concerts, meeting the public after performances. We have to realize that a conductor is a human being with his own strengths and weaknesses.”