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From Alex Ross’ recent piece in the New Yorker reviewing several books [including a new one by William Weber, author of the superb Music and the Middle Class] on concert history:

‘A new generation of American conductors, notably David Robertson, Alan Gilbert, and Robert Spano, is opting out of the one-masterpiece-from-each-column approach to programming, devising combinations of works that cut arrestingly from the ancient to the brand-new.’

Me, too! [Exhibits 1A, 1B, 1C, etc.]