Maestro Leonard Slatkin has made the DSO his own.
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Well, that didn't take long. In the four months since Leonard Slatkin's
official debut as music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, he
has gone a long way toward reinventing the institution in his own
image. He has already stamped his DNA on the orchestra on and offstage,
from a rapidly maturing rapport with the players and new seating
arrangement to programming, outreach and fund-raising. Slatkin returns
to Detroit this week to conduct the fifth and final week of concerts of
his first season, which makes this an ideal moment to take stock of the
64-year-old conductor's jackrabbit start.
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