Is CSO Forgetting Lessons Of The Barenboim Era?

Lost in the flurry of critical insistence that Riccardo Muti be named the next music director of the Chicago Symphony seems to be the fact that Muti, while a brilliant conductor, would embody many of the same flaws that eventually led to the departure of Daniel Barenboim. If he became the CSO’s top man, Muti would be “unlikely to live here or be around much, probably won’t want to get chummy with the community or handle administrative duties.”