Thank you so much for your excellent pieces on Ludovic Morlot. We started going to see the symphony again when he took over, and have loved just about everything they have performed, especially the Dutilleux works. Morlot can make even the most meat and potatos repertoire exciting. Your articles on Morlot are far superior to anything put out any where else in this town.
With all the money flowing in Seattle, we should have the best symphony in the country, and it seems like Morlot is working to reach a bigger and younger audience, while still offering challenging music for all.

You wrote "After some training, I could look at the letters D-U-T-I-L-L-E-U-X and then say "doo-tee-yuh" in response, but it required a bit of attention and a little direction. I had to ignore ingrained assumptions about the way the letter L works, and I also had to remember the idea that letters are really just symbols that correspond to sounds that different cultures pronounce in different ways." I loved this bit of navigating you include midway. In order to appreciate the score it helps so much to jump the tracks and the story was made so much richer. Thanks. Neither a Paris visitor nor one who can sit in the symphony audience, your article was a journey into appreciating art-making and THAT is something to love. I know something more about Seattle and Ludovic Morlot and his mentor doo-tee-yuh. Great!

Lovely article! Thanks so much for this!