{"id":15902,"date":"2013-11-11T12:44:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T17:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=15902"},"modified":"2013-11-11T13:04:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T18:04:33","slug":"music-director-kent-nagano-extends-montreal-symphony-orchestra-contract-to-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/11\/11\/music-director-kent-nagano-extends-montreal-symphony-orchestra-contract-to-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Music director Kent Nagano extends Montreal Symphony Orchestra contract to 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/nagano.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15903\" alt=\"nagano\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/nagano.jpg\" width=\"568\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/nagano.jpg 568w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/nagano-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kent Nagano may be shuffling his European commitments, but Montreal will remain his orchestral home base until 2020, according to a contract extension announced today.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, there was no pressing need to make this announcement, given that Nagano was already committed to the Montreal Symphony until 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Since Nagano officially took over as music director in 2006, the orchestra has launched several popular initiatives, including a summertime music marathon using all of the spaces at its Place des Arts home in downtown Montreal, having season-opening concerts shown on big screens in the plaza outside.<\/p>\n<p>The orchestra has also made several commercial recordings during Nagano&#8217;s tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, the orchestra was able to move into a new, dedicated concert hall, the Maison symphonique. The final piece in that hall&#8217;s construction, a new Casavant Fr\u00e8res pipe organ. The Grand Orgue Pierre B\u00e9ique will be officially inaugurated on May 28.<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve had the good fortune in recent years to be part of a great period in the Orchestra\u2019s history. I hope to help create and develop other important projects during my extended tenure as music director, which will raise the OSM\u2019s profile both in Montreal and beyond,\u201d said Nagano at the press conference.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Nagano may be shuffling his European commitments, but Montreal will remain his orchestral home base until 2020, according to a contract extension announced today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,36,39,60],"tags":[4135,895,1224,1858,2272,2303],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/nagano.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-48u","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15902"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15907,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15902\/revisions\/15907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15902"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}