Why Doesn’t The BSO Trust Its Audience?

Much has been made of Gennady Rozhdestvensky’s refusal to conduct the Boston Symphony last week after discovering that his name was in small print on a poster. But Jeremy Eichler says that the BSO has “a deeper problem of… condescending to a potential audience. If the BSO had the artistic vision to bring Rozhdestvensky to its stage, it should have had the marketing courage to stand behind its reasons for doing so.”