HK Conductor Driven Out By Pollution

There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about the importance of an orchestra’s music director living in the same city as his orchestra. So it can’t be welcome news for the Hong Kong Philharmonic that music director Edo deWaart is moving his family out of the city, and back to his wife’s family home in Wisconsin. The major reason for the move: Hong Kong’s notorious air pollution is sickening deWaart’s children.