Christoph Eschenbach, formerly the embattled music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, has taken a position with the National Symphony, which will entail not only being the NSO’s music director, but also being the music director of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Reportedly, this will enable him to curate interdisciplinary festivals in the complex, which includes an opera house, concert hall, recital hall, and theater spaces within its spacious confines.
Read the Washington Post article here.