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  • Two Weeks of Concerts in Dublin

    March 3, 2023

    Leonard is in Dublin to perform two programs with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, tonight at 7:30 PM GMT/2:30 PM EST and Friday, March 10, at 7:30 PM GMT/2:30 PM EST. The concerts will be broadcast live and available for online listening at RTÉ Lyric Live FM.

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  • Slatkin Returns to Detroit

    February 3, 2023

    Leonard once again joins the DSO for three concerts with pianist Garrick Ohlsson. The program, originally planned for spring 2020, comprises three masterpieces: Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, and Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1.

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NOVEMBER 2023

The road beckoned, and I travelled west and east for what I hoped would be lovely sets of concerts. That wish has so far come true, but the intrusions on beauty by events taking place at home and abroad prevented total immersion in the music.

Over and over, I kept wondering what those of us who practice our art in public could do as war broke out in Gaza. And as usual, there was no answer. Organizations and individual artists can make statements, but ultimately we are powerless to do much more than offer some sort of diversion for a little while to those who attend our performances. The audience comes to the concert hall or opera house to escape the outside world. And, to an even greater degree, so do my fellow musicians, who work tirelessly to get to the heart and soul of the music we play.

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