“The New York Philharmonic is poised to announce the successor as music director to Lorin Maazel, who leaves at the end of the 2008-9 season (the same time, intriguingly, that Mr. Salonen will be free). After Mr. Masur and Mr. Maazel — two formidable but very Old World maestros whose combined tenures at the Philharmonic will have totaled 18 years — it would surely seem time for a generational jolt.”