Why Oramo is great news for the BBCSO

Conductor Sakari Oramo will raise the BBC Symphony Orchestra's game and put a smile on their faces, writes Fiona MaddocksBarely a week passes without a shuffle of conductors' chairs. Why has today's announcement that Sakari Oramo will become Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra caused such a rare outpouring of universal enthusiasm and twitter excitement? For one thing, the BBCSO has been in something of a doldrums of late and this appointment, in one fell swoop, has put them back on the...

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