Article: MSO will name Delfs music director today German native chosen after two-year search

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra will name Andreas Delfs music director later today.

Delfs, 35, a native of Flensburg, Germany, is now general music director of the Hanover State Opera and Orchestra in Germany and a regular guest conductor of the Bern Symphony.

The appointment of Delfs will mark the end of a two-year search for a successor to Zdenek Macal, who left the MSO in June 1995.

The MSO has scheduled a news conference for 12:30 p.m. today to "announce exciting news of great importance," but MSO public relations manager Andrew C. Buelow would not comment further. A music director is the artistic head of an orchestra. The director conducts the majority of classical subscription ...

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