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Fabio Luisi hurried to the Met's rescue after James Levine's accident where he now resides as principal conductor. This has left the Vienna Symphonics more or less without such. (Officially Luisi is keeping this position until 2012/13. One doesn't envy him for this commute.) Was it Luisi's new calling that gave momentum to the search for a new face to hand the baton over to? Be that as it may, this week the Symphonics announced that their new face will be 36-year-old Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan. He will start this job with the season 2014/15 which leaves the Symphonics without a music director for a year. He will also remain principal conductor of the Opéra National de Paris. A comparably tolerable commute, one may add.

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