John DeMain’s final season with the Madison Symphony Orchestra begins Friday
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John DeMain, conductor of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, conducted the world premiere of “A Quiet Place,” an opera composed by legendary conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein. Hear him talk about working with Bernstein and the gift that he gave him following the show.
In preparing programs, DeMain does something others in classical music sometimes scorn: Listen. DeMain is retiring at the end of the orchestra’s next season.
A tiny gold piano sits on a table in DeMain’s Madison home. To familiarize himself with a symphony, DeMain first sits down at his piano and works through the orchestral score.
When John DeMain arrived in Madison as one of three candidates vying to lead the Madison Symphony Orchestra in 1993, he exhorted the musicians not to forget him. After more than three decades, DeMain enters his final season as music director as perhaps the MSO‘s most memorable figure.
John DeMain, conductor of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, conducted the world premiere of “A Quiet Place,” an opera composed by legendary cond…
When John DeMain arrived in Madison as one of three candidates vying to lead the Madison Symphony Orchestra in 1993, he exhorted the musicians not to forget him. After more than three decades, DeMain enters his final season as music director as perhaps the MSO‘s most memorable figure.
In preparing programs, DeMain does something others in classical music sometimes scorn: Listen. DeMain is retiring at the end of the orchestra’s next season.
A tiny gold piano sits on a table in DeMain’s Madison home. To familiarize himself with a symphony, DeMain first sits down at his piano and works through the orchestral score.
