David Robertson’s appointment as music director of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra seems to be solidifying the notion that the SLSO, so recently on the brink of financial collapse, is back as a major player on the national orchestral scene. “A lot was riding on the identity of the new music director. The wrong conductor could have derailed the orchestra’s forward momentum, artistically and financially. But the right conductor – and there can be little doubt that Robertson’s the one – will build on what his predecessors left him and then help the orchestra on to even greater things.”