Tom Service: LA bids a fond farewell to Esa-Pekka Salonen

I like this. A humble plastic bag, from Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles – but one that celebrates the reign of Esa-Pekka Salonen, the outgoing music director of the LA Phil. I'm in California to cover, inter alia, a concert that Thomas Adès is conducting with the orchestra this weekend, more of which anon. The only other city I've been to where the conductor is feted like a civic star is Berlin, where posters of Simon Rattle adorn billboards, streetlamps, and merchandise. Salonen has b...

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