By Eric Dundon In 1964, a young Leonard Slatkin took part in a conducting workshop in Aspen, Colorado. As a first-year student whose age didn’t yet start with the number two, Slatkin conducted one piece that summer, Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings. The Music Director in Aspen was the Czech-born British conductor Walter Susskind. It … Continue reading Reflecting on Leonard Slatkin’s Half-Century SLSO Legacy