Muti has proved enthusiastic about performing in the community, including events at juvenile detention facilities. And after years of resisting, he even began to drop some of his complaints about appearing at endless donor events. In 2019, a musicians’ strike lasted nearly seven weeks; in an unusual move for a music director, Muti publicly sided with the players, and appeared with them on the picket line. “I’ve worked in a few other places,” said Alexander, the orchestra’s president, “where it’s much more common that the music director disappears, or they come back once every three or five years. — “If you choose somebody that really I don’t like, then I don’t know if I come back.”

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