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	Herbert Blomstedt
		Blomstedt moved with his family to Sweden in 1929 and later attended the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and the University of Uppsala.
		Blomstedt continues to conduct the SFS regularly and led the Orchestra most recently in two weeks of subscription concerts in October 2006.
		Herbert Blomstedt is in constant demand as a guest conductor and has led many of the world’s greatest orchestras.
	www.sfsymphony.org /templates/conductor.asp?nodeid=76 (463 words)

	SR Berwaldhallen - Symfonin i centrum med Herbert Blomstedt - Newsdesk
		När den tjugofyraårige Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sommaren 1780 komponerar Symfoni nr 34 försvinner han som vanligt in i musiken och av egen leda finns inte ett spår.
		Herbert Blomstedt är utan tvekan vår mest framgångsrika dirigentexport från Sverige.
		Blomstedt debuterade med Kungliga filharmonikerna för 53 (!) år sedan och har sedan dess dirigerat sig genom alla epoker med samma fördomsfria nyfikenhet.
	www.newsdesk.se /view/pressrelease/125459 (519 words)

	Beethoven & Tchaikovsky, Julian Rachlin (violin), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Herbert Blomstedt, Royal Festival ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Instead of challenging Blomstedt’s forces with the attitude and obstinacy that the assertive role of soloist demands, Rachlin became the impoverished victim of his excessively fragile musical artifice.
		Blomstedt maintained a flexibility of tempo alongside the tightly knit textures and his enthusiasm at the podium was heightened by terrific timing and anticipation from the meticulously crafted orchestral palette.
		Blomstedt and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra celebrated the sound and passion of a piece that manoeuvred from seductive tunes to frantic scrambling to the ominous ‘fate-theme’ fanfare.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2004/May-Aug04/Beethoven254.htm (574 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / Blomstedt's BSO debut a musical celebration
		Herbert Blomstedt was born in Springfield, but most of his distinguished career has been based in Europe, except for a notable decade as music director of the San Francisco Symphony.
		Many Americans first became aware both of Blomstedt and of the magnitude of Nielsen's accomplishment through the conductor's first recording of the complete cycle of symphonies on the budget Seraphim LP label.
		Blomstedt opened with Mendelssohn's overture "The Fair Melusine," which is supposed to tell a terrible tale, but what we take away is pure delight in the rippling and scampering of the water music.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2004/02/27/blomstedts_bso_debut_a_musical_celebration (530 words)

	Mendelssohn & Brahms, Alfredo Perl (pf), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt, Barbican, 27th October ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Blomstedt’s cool and classical approach to this energetic movement delivered a perfectly judged build up to the closing chorale bringing the symphony to a satisfying conclusion.
		Blomstedt’s genius was his ability to reveal every detail of the score with the utmost transparency.
		By way of an encore, Blomstedt conducted a solid and dramatic account of Beethoven’s Egmont Overture; again he handled the notoriously difficult transitions and dynamic markings with total control and consummate ease; the horns in particular had great bite and a tragic darkness.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2002/Aug02/Barbican_Blomstedt.htm (733 words)

	ANN Feature: Conductor Blomstedt Says Music Is His Sermon - www.interamerica.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Maestro Herbert Blomstedt, one of the classical music world's fixtures as a conductor of global renown, says that a work such as Beethoven's Fourth Symphony or Nielsen's "Inextinguishable" is the "text" from which he expounds a sermon in the world's great
		Maestro Herbert Blomstedt, one of the classical music world's fixtures as a conductor of global renown, says that a work such as Beethoven's Fourth Symphony or Nielsen's "Inextinguishable" is the "text" from which he expounds a sermon in the world's great concert halls.
		From his base in Lucerne, Switzerland, Blomstedt circles the globe conducting orchestras and fulfilling, in a sense, his earlier desire to be a missionary.
	www.interamerica.org /users/index.php?type=news&id=76&language=en (801 words)

	Blomstedt calls many podiums home
		Blomstedt, who turns 77 this spring, says he feels wonderful ("it's a gift"), looks as hale as the day he first mounted the Davies Hall podium and, despite his linguistic facility, doesn't know the meaning of the word retirement.
		Blomstedt recently extended his five-year contract by two years in Leipzig (to summer 2005), leaving time for his successor, Riccardo Chailly, to feel his way into the new position and a different repertoire.
		Herbert Blomstedt: The maestro conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam at 7:30 tonight and 8 p.m.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/22/PKGQR4VK7I1.DTL&type=music (992 words)

	Leipzig Online® - Blomstedt, Herbert
		Herbert Blomstedt, in den USA als Sohn schwedischer Eltern geboren, erhielt seine erste musikalische Ausbildung am Königlichen Konservatorium in Stockholm und an der Universität Uppsala.
		1954 debütierte Herbert Blomstedt als Dirigent mit dem Stockholmer Philharmonischen Orchester und arbeitete seither als Chefdirigent bedeutender skandinavischer Orchester wie des Dänischen und Schwedischen Radio- Sinfonieorchesters; letzteres leitete er bis 1963.
		Als Gastdirigent arbeitete Herbert Blomstedt mit vielen bedeutenden Orchestern wie den Bamberger Symphonikern, den Berliner und Münchner Philharmonikern, dem Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, dem Chicago und dem Boston Symphony Orchestra, dem Los Angeles sowie dem Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
	www.leipzig-online.de /index.php3/267_1_1.html?g=12 (186 words)

	Classical Net Review - Hindemith - Symphony "Mathis der Maler", etc.
		Blomstedt not only kept the orchestral textures clear, he showed the symphony's coherence as something more than mere travelogue.
		Furthermore, Blomstedt imbued the symphony with a nobility of spirit that most conductors reserve for Bruckner and Mahler.
		Blomstedt hesitates more in this regard and seems to care more for orchestral sonority, so that at the climax, instead of the interplay of motives, we get an orchestral "swirly." Finally, Horenstein's performance just puts out more volts.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/e/emi55230a.html (955 words)

	Blomstedt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Pacific Union College is conferring an honorary doctor of music degree on Herbert Blomstedt, music director laureate of the San Francisco Symphony, at 7 p.m.
		Blomstedt has been invited each year to return as guest conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, which he will conduct on March 20 and 22.
		Blomstedt has received many awards and honors, including two Grammy Awards (1996, 1993), the Grand Prix du Disque (1992), the Litteris et Artibus Gold Medal (1989), and two honorary doctorates, from Andrews University in Michigan and Southwestern Adventist College in Texas.
	www.puc.edu /PUC/newsevents/news/1997/winter/blomstedt.html (247 words)

	S A N \| F R A N C I S C O \| C L A S S I C A L \| V O I C E
		Herbert Blomstedt’s San Francisco Symphony program heard last Friday was an odd duck, pairing Schubert’s 5th Symphony in B flat and Brahms’s 4th Symphony in E minor.
		In a nod to period practice, Blomstedt arranged the orchestra for both with the first violins to his left and second violins to his right.
		The Brahms was more Blomstedt’s element and (this time on the podium with a baton) he gave it a tremendous, deeply-felt performance.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/sfsym_2_10_04.php (636 words)

	San Francisco Symphony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The San Francisco Symphony makes regular tours of the United States, Europe and Asia, and their concerts are broadcast weekly by numerous radio stations.
		The orchestra has a long history of recordings, most notably those made with Pierre Monteux for RCA, Herbert Blomstedt for Decca, and Michael Tilson Thomas for BMG and the orchestra's own SFS Media label.
		Past music directors include (1911-1915), (1915-1930), and (1930-1934), Pierre Monteux (1935-1954), (1954-1963), (1963-1970), Seiji Ozawa (1970-1977), Edo de Waart (1977-1985) and Herbert Blomstedt (1985-1995), who is now Conductor Laureate.
	americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/San_Francisco_Symphony (232 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra; Till Eulenspiegel; Tod und Verklärung [Import] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Dating back to his time as the chief conductor of the Dresden State Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt has always been a supreme interpreter of Richard Strauss' music, and this recording of three of Strauss' famous symphonic tone poems that he made in the mid 90s with the San Francisco Symphony is proof of that.
		Blomstedt and the orchestra shine in all three works--"Also Sprach Zarathustra"; "Death And Transfiguration"; and "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks." The wit of "Eulenspiegel" is bought out quite well by the orchestra; and the metaphysical beauty of "Transfiguration" is something truly to behold, with a very poignant conclusion.
		Blomstedt has been a distinguished Strauss interpreter for some time, and this recording is yet another demonstration of this.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000007OTP (671 words)

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	www.zeroland.co.nz /classical_conductors.html (85 words)

	Guardian \| LGO/Herbert Blomstedt
		The playing and the mellow richness of the Leipzig sound could only be described as exemplary here, although it should be added that neither work quite found its ideal interpreter in Herbert Blomstedt, the orchestra's music director.
		Perceiving the symphony as retroactively haunted by its final movement, with its vision of paradise seen through the eyes of a child, Blomstedt tinged it with innocence in its entirety, to the point of sometimes cramping its emotional range.
		Blomstedt glided round the terrors that intrude upon the slow movement's calm, although its closing moments had a matchless, magical serenity.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4249449-108720,00.html (274 words)

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		Blomstedt’s account of the Ninth is clear and methodical in its approach but there never seems to be a great deal behind the notes.
		There is, for example, nothing maudlin or long-drawn about his treatment of the final Adagio, yet the sense of troubled nobility of utterance is everywhere there, right through to the slightly tremulous (though possibly inadvertent) quality of the horns’ long-held final chord.
		This, however, is the only flaw in a performance that is otherwise remarkably similar to Tintner’s in its sense of the work’s mingled spirituality and drama but played by the Berliners with a power, spontaneity and depth of tone that neither of the rival orchestras can quite match.
	home.wanadoo.nl /jdpt/reviews/B/Bruck9_Tintner.htm (800 words)

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		Watching Blomstedt at work in this movement and elsewhere was a welcome reminder of just how little of that rambunctious puppy (or whatever other metaphor you’d care to name) the orchestra actually needs to see to get the sound of one.
		The “canzona” of the slow movement was to Blomstedt’s mind a most simple and unaffected song, played most gracefully by the solo oboe and the other winds.
		Blomstedt immediately walked back into the first row of players, seeking to take the applause as one of them, but here the affection of audience and orchestra was most evident.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/concertgebouw1_2_24_04.php (1327 words)

	NPR's SymphonyCast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Blomstedt has held positions as music director of the Oslo Philharmonic, Danish Radio Symphony, and the Swedish Radio Symphony; he was also Chief Conductor of Hamburg's North German Radio Symphony Orchestra.
		Maestro Blomstedt made his debut with the San Francisco Symphony in February 1984, in concerts that led immediately to his appointment as Music Director.
		Herbert Blomstedt is Conductor Laureate of the San Francisco Symphony and of the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, and has also been appointed Chief Conductor of the NDR Sinfonieorchester in Hamburg.
	www.npr.org /programs/symphonycast/latest/030119.extra.html (370 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Carmina Burana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		What makes the performance so successful is Herbert Blomstedt's determination to focus on beautiful singing of the tunes, rather than merely pounding out the rhythm and letting the chips fall where they may. The result is uncommonly colorful and musically satisfying.
		Blomstedt does a good job of restraining the performers in the more lyric sections, such as "Chume, chume, geselle min" and "In trutina," to balance out the power of the many fast-and-furious movements.
		Blomstedt whips up a huge amount of excitement with overall tempi on the brisk side, but still allows delicate sections to breathe, such as "In Trutina" (with the excellent soprano Lynne Dawson, who sounds clear and focused both here and throughout the recording).
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000041YC (1950 words)

	Amazon.com: Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Blomstedt could be maddeningly inconistent, showing plenty of dynamism in some of his Decca recordings with San Francisco but then veering into utter neturality, as with this German Requiem.
		Blomstedt's recording with the forces of the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus emphasizes the consolatory side of Brahms' Requiem, keeping things moving effectively in music that can easily seem heavy and lugubrious.
		Blomstedt understands that Brahms wrote his requiem as a source of solace to the living and that it is supposed to be uplifting, not sad and slow.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000424O?v=glance (1018 words)

	NIELSEN Sym.1&2/Stokowski BBC
		While principal conductor of the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt made one of the first integral recordings of Carl Nielsen's six symphonies in the early-to-middle '70s, along with the three concertos (violin, flute, clarinet), and shorter works seldom heard outside of Denmark.
		Blomstedt's wordless vocal soloists in the slow movement are lovely to hear and ideally distant.
		In the 1974 Blomstedt recording, No. 4 is underpowered although idiomatic, whereas the Danish Radio Orchestra's playing is as proprietary and affectionate as the Vienna Phil's New Year performances of music by J-J-and-J Strauss.
	classicalcdreview.com /nielblom.htm (561 words)

	Spectrum \| AAF Online
		Herbert Blomstedt is conductor laureate of the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) and music director of the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig.
		In 1996, Blomstedt assumed the post of chief conductor for Hamburg's NDR Symphony Orchestra, and in 1998 became music director to the Gewandhaus Orchestra, one of the world's most revered ensembles.
		Among other subjects, Maestro Blomstedt discusses his upbringing as an Adventist, offers insights into the distinguishing characteristics of quality music, and talks about his favorite theologians.
	www.spectrummagazine.org /store/blomvideo.html (213 words)

	Herbert Blomstedt to head Gewandhausorchester - replaces Kurt Masur
		Herbert Blomstedt to head Gewandhausorchester - replaces Kurt Masur
		Herbert Blomstedt to head Gewandhausorchester; Replaces Kurt Masur
		A five-year mandate beginning in 1998, Blomstedt will succeed Kurt Masur who has been at the head of the East German orchestra since 1970.
	www.culturekiosque.com /Klassik/news/ra1onews.htm (249 words)

	Oboists in the News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		William Bennett was soloist in the first performances of the Oboe Concerto by John Harbison, with the San Francisco Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt conducting, on December 3, 4, and 5, 1992.
		By 1987, after a series of strenuous tests set by music director Herbert Blomstedt, Bennett was named principal oboe -next to the concertmaster, the most important post in the symphony orchestra.
		The concerto that Bennett and music director Herbert Blomstedt introduced was easy enough listening, dedicated as it is to keeping Bennett and his inventive and expressive playing in the forefront.
	idrs.colorado.edu /Publications/DR/DR16.1/DR16.1.OITN.html (4579 words)

	THE FOCUS online - Parallel Worlds
		ESSAY Nobel laureate T. Lee on the inquisitive mind
		DIALOGUE Conductor Herbert Blomstedt talks with multiple director Mads Øvlisen about art and music as a source of inspiration
		Conductor Herbert Blomstedt talks with multiple director Mads Øvlisen about art and music as a source of inspiration
	www.ezifocus.com /content/thefocus/issue/index.php/category/parallelworlds (183 words)

	ArkivMusic \| Beethoven: Complete Symphonies / Blomstedt, Staatskapelle Dresden
		Herbert Blomstedt's Beethoven cycle with the Staatskapelle Dresden is one of the great ones, as much for the magnificent playing of this finest of all German orchestras as for Blomstedt's effortlessly musical interpretations.
		On the other hand, Blomstedt's more emotionally balanced conception is so well realized that I'm inclined to give him credit for bringing off an unconventional interpretation, particularly as the remainder of the symphony lacks for nothing in excitement or sheer power.
		The recordings, made in Dresden's Lucaskirche in the late 1970s and early '80s, put a silvery sheen around the players (winds especially) and strike an excellent balance between clarity and warmth.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=89706 (222 words)

	Classical blend Easy intimacy guides Blomstedt, Symphony
		Conductor Herbert Blomstedt returned to Davies Symphony Hall Thursday afternoon and his reunion with the San Francisco Symphony was a joyous one, as they generally seem to be these days.
		At this stage in his career, Blomstedt seems content to concentrate almost exclusively on the standard repertoire.
		Yet Blomstedt continues to elaborate and refine his conception of these works, constantly turning them over this way and that to uncover some new facet or wrinkle.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/07/DDGTE4QALB1.DTL (408 words)

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