STORY AND LINK: Christoph Eschenbach to begin tenure with National Symphony

Much of the classical music world is focusing on Riccardo Muti's beginning as music director of the Chicago Symphony this month. However, there's another debut about to take place: Christoph Eschenbach with Washington D.C.'s National Symphony. Anne Midgette, music critic of the Washington Post, has an interesting profile HERE — and a column on how the story came to be written HERE.