“Tsung Yeh announced his retirement Tuesday as music director of the South Bend Symphony Orchestra,” writes Andrew Hughes in Wednesday’s (6/17) South Bend Tribune (Indiana). “His final concert as music director will be May 7, 2016, with a program that opens with Christopher Rouse’s ‘The Infernal Machine’ and Oboe Concerto and concludes with Orff’s ‘Carmina Burana.’ Yeh, 65 … will continue to serve as music director of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra…. For the 2016-17 season, Yeh will remain with the SBSO as artistic advisor and will program its concerts…. He already is the second-longest serving music director for the SBSO, behind only its founder, Edwyn Hames, who led the orchestra from 1932 to 1972. When he finishes the 2015-16 season, Yeh will have been music director through 27 seasons…. Yeh also has been a daring music director with his program choices…. The conductor also forged fruitful partnerships on- and off-stage, the latter with local corporations that sponsor the SBSO and the former with the University of Notre Dame and Indiana University South Bend and their music departments…. A committee will be appointed later this year to begin an international search for a new conductor.”
Posted June 17, 2015
