Truly great music can survive mediocre performances. Beethoven symphonies make their impact to some degree no matter how unskilled the conductor and orchestra. But music that is less than great needs help from performers…

Fawzi Haimor is an American conductor, and may be familiar to audiences there as a former assistant conductor to the Pittsburgh Symphony. He has since pursued a career in Europe and was music director of the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen…

Anyone who wants can stream it all, download it or anything else. But be honest: all the “Digital Concert Halls” are just a substitute. It is still the live experience that counts. Therefore – and because Fawzi Haimor is a charismatic chief conductor at the podium – people are still pouring into the symphony concerts…