MONTREAL - The Canadian music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra could have told the Orchestre Métropolitain he no longer had time for them. Yet he returns each season to conduct, and the results are remarkable.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Opening a tour through the U.S. with the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner led a dramatic account of Monteverdi's Vespers, which inspired him to found the choir in 1964.
