At 87, Felix Resnick is the oldest musician in the Detroit Symphony. At 23, Gina DiBello is the youngest. “Resnick began his tenure in 1943 during Franklin Roosevelt’s third term, and allowing for the two years the DSO was dormant from 1949 to 1951, his 61 seasons represent the longest active streak in any major American orchestra. DiBello, meanwhile, joined in September. She is one of just a handful of players each year to land a job in a top orchestra while still in their early 20s.”
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Filming At The Met
“For the first time in nearly two decades, since the 1987 ‘Moonstruck’ and its rhapsodic scene from ‘La Bohème,’ a movie is being filmed at the Metropolitan Opera. The rarity is a result of the Met’s busy schedule as well as of the general absence of opera from movies and most of popular culture. But the filming is emblematic of the Met’s future reign, in the person of Peter Gelb, who made his mark in the classical recording industry partly with crossover projects and movie soundtracks.”