“Leonard, your beat is so clear that even blind people could follow you” ~ André Previn ~ “Conductor, composer, author”, communicator, educator, broadcaster. Leonard Slatkin lives music. For sixty years, more particularly since his Carnegie Hall debut and professional breakthrough in March 1966, aged twenty-one, as conductor of the New York Youth Symphony – America’s … Continue reading LEONARD SLATKIN AT EIGHTY – an immersive article by Ateş Orga.