Brian Wise

Producer, Editor and Journalist

Tag: detroit

  • Leonard Slatkin on His Final Bow at the Detroit Symphony

    Leonard Slatkin on His Final Bow at the Detroit Symphony

    On May 25, I attended the first of three final programs that Leonard Slatkin had programmed for his 10th and final season as music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. But Slatkin wasn’t there. The 73-year-old conductor was forced to withdraw from the concerts in order to undergo a heart-bypass operation (he’s reportedly recovering well).

  • A Changing Landscape: Detroit Emerges from Bankruptcy to a Burgeoning Arts Scene

    This article appeared in the summer 2015 issue of Listen magazine. Soon after tuba player Dennis Nulty joined the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 2009, he did what nearly every musician in the orchestra had done before him: he hightailed it to the suburbs. The then-twenty-two-year-old from Buffalo, NY had received one too many warnings about…