{"id":46212,"date":"2017-06-29T14:18:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T18:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=46212"},"modified":"2017-06-29T14:26:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T18:26:38","slug":"breaking-kent-nagano-stepping-down-from-montreal-symphony-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2017\/06\/29\/breaking-kent-nagano-stepping-down-from-montreal-symphony-orchestra\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING |\u00a0Kent Nagano Stepping Down From Montreal Symphony Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_46213\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46213\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46213\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/OSM140910-198.jpg\" alt=\"Kent Nagano and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (Photo: Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rick Truchon-Gagnon)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/OSM140910-198.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/OSM140910-198-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/OSM140910-198-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kent Nagano and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (Photo: Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rick Truchon-Gagnon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Montreal Symphony Orchestra (MSO) and their music director\u00a0<span class=\"xn-person\">Kent Nagano<\/span>\u00a0announced today that\u00a0Nagano will not be renewing\u00a0his directorship contract. He will thus leave the organisation in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe intend to continue the relationship with Maestro Nagano at the end of his term in three years so that the public and all of us can maintain a relationship with the conductor,\u201d commented\u00a0<span class=\"xn-person\">Lucien Bouchard<\/span>, chair of the MSO&#8217;s board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on his 16 years in Montreal, Nagano declared that the MSO has \u201caccomplished nothing short of a miracle in shaping such a vital, financially stable, boldly innovative orchestra that continues to illuminate the relevance of the symphony orchestra for the 21st\u00a0century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conductor\u00a0added that \u201cit seems like a natural transition point at which to change the nature of our relationship and we are presently enjoying creative discussions about the directions in which that could lead. The 21st\u00a0century continues to be a prosperous, wonderfully creative and innovative time for the whole organization and the city of\u00a0<span class=\"xn-location\">Montreal<\/span>\u00a0and there remain many exciting goals and projects to fulfill.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><b><i>#LUDWIGVAN<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Nagano is leaving his Music Director role at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":46213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6439,875,9567,39,60],"tags":[1858,2272,5898,4485,2542],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/OSM140910-198.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-c1m","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46212"}],"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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46217,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46212\/revisions\/46217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46212"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=46212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}