Leadership through Listening I’m sitting here in my hotel in Stockholm at 4:00 in the morning—wide awake due to jetlag—and I’m thinking about this experience of conducting the orchestra here for the very first time. It’s something that happens all the time when I am invited as a guest conductor. I’m not familiar with this orchestra, and they aren’t familiar with me, but within just the first few minutes, we’re able to begin making music together. How is this possible? I’m someone they’ve...

Paul Hyde for the Greenville Journal - March 16, 2026 The haunting choral opening of Mozart’s Requiem will launch the Greenville Symphony Orchestra’s 2026-27 season in September, opening a year that returns the orchestra to many of the cornerstone works of the European concert tradition. After a season focused largely on American music, the orchestra’s 79th year highlights composers including Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Maurice Ravel....

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