{"id":27339,"date":"2024-04-24T13:28:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/cristian-macelaru-decorated-maestro-to-lead-cincinnati-symphony\/24\/04\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T17:28:08","slug":"cristian-macelaru-decorated-maestro-to-lead-cincinnati-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/cristian-macelaru-decorated-maestro-to-lead-cincinnati-symphony\/24\/04\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristian Macelaru, Decorated Maestro, to Lead Cincinnati Symphony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, which has a history of attracting top conductors, including Fritz Reiner and Leopold Stokowski, announced on Wednesday that its next music director would be Cristian Macelaru, a Romanian-born maestro who has helped champion music education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Macelaru, 44, will begin a four-year term as music director in Cincinnati in the 2025-26 season and become music director designate in September, the ensemble said. Macelaru, who holds prestigious posts in Europe, leading both the Orchestre National de France and the WDR Sinfonieorchester in Cologne, Germany, will succeed the veteran <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/14\/arts\/music\/louis-langree-conductor-mostly-mozart-cincinnati.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">conductor Louis Langr\u00e9e<\/a>, the ensemble\u2019s leader since 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Macelaru said he felt a sense of possibility with the orchestra and the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis was the one orchestra I really wanted to be with in America,\u201d he said in a telephone interview from China, where he was leading a tour with the WDR Sinfonieorchester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Macelaru has often spoken of making classical music accessible to a broader audience, and said he hoped to help expand music education efforts in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m very disappointed when I see so many orchestras and colleagues who feel that the music should speak for itself,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have to tell people why this music is so beautiful and how they can discover even more beauty in it. I have done this all my life. And now I feel like I have a platform that is even more evident and more visible to be able to spread this message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Jonathan Martin, the Cincinnati Symphony\u2019s president and chief executive, said in an interview that the orchestra\u2019s leaders were impressed not only by Macelaru\u2019s conducting talents but also by his desire to help expand the orchestra\u2019s presence in the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe\u2019s got this unique ability to unlock the power of music to reach audiences,\u201d Martin said. \u201cHe understands that orchestras in American communities have the power to serve much better than we have in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Cincinnati Symphony, like many orchestras, is working to recover from the setbacks of the pandemic. Attendance at concerts is still below prepandemic levels \u2014 about 66 percent this season compared with 78 percent in the 2018-19 season \u2014 though it has been gradually rising. Subscriptions have been in decline, following a national trend: There are 3,901 subscribers this season, compared with 5,380 in the 2018-19 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the orchestra, founded in 1895, has a robust endowment, valued at about $358 million, relatively large for an ensemble of its size, and several other advantages: Fund-raising has been strong, the number of performances has increased and the budget has grown to about $38 million this season from about $31 million in the 2018-19 season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Macelaru was born in Timisoara, Romania, the youngest of 10 children, and grew up playing the violin. His father worked in a factory but conducted a local church orchestra on the side. He made sure that all of his children practiced an instrument every day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At 17, Macelaru came to the United States to enroll at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. In the early part of his career, he focused on violin \u2014 he was the concertmaster of the Miami Symphony Orchestra and played in the Houston Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But he was drawn to conducting, and in 2011, he became an assistant conductor in Philadelphia. Soon, he was winning top posts: He began his tenure in Cologne in 2019 and at the Orchestre National de France the next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Macelaru, who became an American citizen in 2019, plans to split his time between Paris and Cincinnati. His tenure at the WDR Sinfonieorchester concludes next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He said he would work to refine the Cincinnati Symphony\u2019s sound, saying he admired the versatility of the musicians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey wear so many hats when playing for an opera or ballet or pops or symphonic repertoire,\u201d he said. \u201cMy next challenge with them will be creating the palette of the sound.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/24\/arts\/music\/cristian-macelaru-to-lead-cincinnati-symphony.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, which has a history of attracting top conductors, including Fritz Reiner and Leopold Stokowski, announced on Wednesday that<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/cristian-macelaru-decorated-maestro-to-lead-cincinnati-symphony\/24\/04\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}