Albie Cabrera asked:

>Hello, It's been while, and I've had a bit of a hard time keeping up with
>who's who head honchos of the world's great orchestras.  Can y'all update
>me as to who are the current chief conductors/musical directors of the
>big ensembles, ...

I'll do the Brits.

>London PO,

Kurt Masur

>London SO

Sir Colin Davis

>City of Birmingham SO (now that Rattle, I think, is in Berlin)

Sakari Oramo

>Royal Opera-Covent Garden

Antonio Pappano

Also:
BBC Symphony - Leonard Slatkin
BBC Philharmonic - Yan Pascal Tortelier
BBC Scottish - Osmo Vanska
BBC NO of Wales - Mark Wigglesworth
Philharmonia - Christoph von Dohnanyi
Royal Philharmonic -  Daniele Gatti
Halle - Mark Elder  (soon)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic - Gerard Schwarz (soon)
Bournemouth Symphony - Yakov Kreizburg

That will do for now.

Tony Duggan,
England