BlogBack: Anne Midgette on the NY Philharmonic’s Next Music Director

I seem to have hit a nerve with NYC music critics, who are bursting with their own ideas about who should be the next music director of the NY Philharmonic. Here’s me, here’s Alex Ross, and now Anne Midgette, a frequent contributor of music criticism to the NY Times, picks up the debate on who should pick up the baton:
I couldn’t resist weighing in on your discussion of the next NY Philharmonic music director. If rumor is true, the Philharmonic already offered Muti the music directorship during their last search, and he turned them down, which is how they, and we, ended up with Maazel. So I would think the likelihood of their offering it to Muti again would be slim (though Muti does, admittedly, have more free time these days).
But I disagree with Alex Ross: I don’t think they’d pick Spano. Spano is a darling of many critics, but I’m not sure the big orchestras fully share in the excitement as yet. If the Philharmonic were going to go young and American, I bet they would look first at David Robertson or Alan Gilbert.
I officially declare my blog home to NY Philologists. Feel free to pile on.
Anthony Tommasini, where are you?