Jaap van Zweden led the DSO from 2008 to 2018.
Jaap van Zweden waved his hands after his last performance as music director for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas on May 26, 2018.in the orchestra’s precision and flexibility.
Behind the scenes, musicians told of hard-driven, stressful rehearsals and bursts of anger that took a toll. None would speak for the record inreporting on tensions at a number of orchestras van Zweden led. After Dallas, van Zweden led the New York Philharmonic from 2018 to 2024. Overlapping in those years, he headed the Hong Kong Philharmonic, after which he took over the Seoul Philharmonic.orchestra managers and staff as well as musicians, according to the broadcaster. Many of the people interviewed go unnamed. Of van Zweden’s anger, Dutch lawyer and researcher Marjan Olfers told the program, “People who experienced and endured it had their boundaries crossed. Sometimes with severe consequences.” Van Zweden replied, “Sometimes I will use an intense tone and if that occurs in the presence of 120 other people, that won’t feel nice. … However that can never be an excuse for a working environment that leads to people feeling constrained or using tranquilizers. …“I am, of course, open to criticism. If my way of working can be improved, I would like to know.”Review: Van Zweden returns to the DSO for an edge-of-seat Shostakovich Fifth SymphonyScott Cantrell Former staff classical music critic Scott Cantrell continues contributing as a freelance writer on classical music and art. His classical music reporting is supported by the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation. The News makes all editorial decisions.
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