![]() But to follow up eight months later with a sequel intimating that the conductor was too young to stand on the world’s biggest stages? It seemed oddly uncharitable, not to mention uncalled-for. Normally one of the more agreeable voices in music criticism, Kosman had penned a rare tepid review of Mäkelä’s San Francisco Symphony debut in April. The latest musical phenom to raise this concern is Klaus Mäkelä. ![]() But that doesn’t mean it’s an uncomplicatedly good idea. Doing so takes a rare confluence of gifts under any circumstances-physical, musical, interpersonal-and some people do start amassing them alarmingly early in life. How old do you have to be to conduct a professional symphony orchestra?. Having read so many rave reviews over several years, I was amazed just after Christmas to read an article by San Francisco Chronicle critic Joshua Kosman about the limits of child prodigies, featuring Mäkelä’s picture at the top. In one of myriad examples, when Mäkelä debuted at the Chicago Symphony last year, the Chicago Classical Review called the concert “a riveting performance of kaleidoscopic brilliance and whipcrack energy.” The worldwide press has reacted to his guest performances with nearly lockstep rhapsodic abandon. ![]() Last year, he released a full Sibelius symphony box set for Decca Records. Just turned 27, the Finnish conducting phenom has already been appointed music director of the Orchestre de Paris and chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic. ![]()
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