Monday 09 November 2009 -- 10:45 p.m. to 11:45 p.m. CST (note later start time tonight)
Critical Thinking with Andrew Patner
I talk with Erik Nielsen, this year's recipient of a major, $25,000 career support grant for young conductors from the Chicago-based Solti Foundation U.S. Iowa-born, Kansas-raised, Juilliard-trained in oboe and harp, Curtis-trained in conducting, Erik, 32, is in his second season as Kapellmeister of the Frankfurt Opera in Germany (and has also played harp with the Berlin Philharmonic). He has worked closely with such conductors as James Levine and Bernard Haitink and received rave reviews from The New York Times when he stepped in for an ailing James Levine at Tanglewood last year to lead both Kurt Weill's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahgonny and a program of two major works by Elliott Carter. Insightful, articulate, and thoughtful, he seems an excellent choice by the Foundation.
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