One of the first orchestras to go public with its objections to a prospective hire was the Cleveland Orchestra.

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Welser-Moest, who is also director of the Cleveland Orchestra in the United States, was admitted to hospital following the incident but allowed to return home later that same evening.

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Michael Stern settled in as music director of the Kansas City Symphony in 2005, after decades guest-conducting orchestras that included the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra and the London Symphony.

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In the spring of 1999, when Lang was sixteen, he went to New York and in a single afternoon auditioned for the Cleveland Orchestra, at Carnegie Hall, and for a manager of the Chicago Symphony.

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With her friends Joshua Smith (principal flutist in the Cleveland Orchestra) and Cynthia Phelps (principal violist in the New York Philharmonic), she chose a set of atmospheric, ethereal works that have what she calls an "esoteric" connection with nature and the environment.

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