{"id":1108,"date":"2009-05-26T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/05\/christoph-eschenbach-elegant-cosmopolitan.html"},"modified":"2009-05-26T10:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T17:26:00","slug":"christoph-eschenbach-elegant-cosmopolitan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/05\/christoph-eschenbach-elegant-cosmopolitan.html","title":{"rendered":"Christoph Eschenbach, Elegant Cosmopolitan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Shw34eu7OkI\/AAAAAAAAASw\/dy8e4_SwxXI\/s1600-h\/eschen.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Shw34eu7OkI\/AAAAAAAAASw\/dy8e4_SwxXI\/s320\/eschen.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>LAST week i went to meet christoph eschenbach, the conductor\/pianist who&#8217;s been part of one of the nastiest divorces in the classical music world during a strained tenure at the philadelphia orchestra.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>here is the way my colleague mark swed described him: &#8220;<\/span><span><span>Thin and erect, with shaved head and large cranium, dressed in avant-garde sleek black shirt and slacks, he looked like some inscrutable creature of advanced intelligence out of the future.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span><span>he was an imposing, very germanic guy, you could say, but one of the most culturally curious people i&#8217;ve ever interviewed, and he loosened up when we started talking about rilke. he&#8217;s the kind of guy so in love with music it literally wakes him up at night.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/arts\/la-et-eschenbach26-2009may26,0,3852998.story?track=rss\"><span>HERE<\/span><\/a><span> is my story in today&#8217;s LAT.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>looking forward to seeing eschenbach play schubert (d.960!) at disney hall tonight&#8230; he&#8217;s also conducting a program of mozart and bruckner this weekend. those of you in DC can count on him taking over as music director at the National Symphony &#8212; which he has pledged to bring into the 21st c. &#8212; in 2010.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>Addendum: <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2009\/05\/review-christoph-eshenbach-plays-the-piano-at-disney-hall.html\">here<\/a> is the review, not by me, of last night&#8217;s dvorak and schubert concert.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christoph-eschenbach.com\/index.php?lid=en&#038;cid=1\">christoph-eschenbach.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAST week i went to meet christoph eschenbach, the conductor\/pianist who&#8217;s been part of one of the nastiest divorces in the classical music world during a strained tenure at the philadelphia orchestra. here is the way my colleague mark swed described him: &#8220;Thin and erect, with shaved head and large cranium, dressed in avant-garde sleek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,140,501,220],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-classical-music","7":"category-disney-hall","8":"category-eschenbach","9":"category-germany","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}