Kevin Cole has carved out a niche for himself as America’s leading interpreter as Gershwin’s piano music, and has solidified his reputation as a crowd-pleaser with performances from coast to coast. But Howard Reich sees potential in Cole that goes far beyond simple performance. American orchestras all seem to struggle when called upon to plan a concert of classic American music (Copland and Bernstein aside,) and Reich thinks that Cole “ripe for an artistic directorship that doesn’t yet exist, but ought to.”