Why has Pinchas Zukerman decided to snub his orchestra for the
   next six months?  Robert Everett-Green investigates.

   The Globe and Mail, Toronto
   By ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN
   Thursday, January 12, 2006 Page R1
   
   Pierre Thberge, director of the National Gallery of Canada, is
   well known in Ottawa for taking his dog to work every day.  But
   when he's not on the job, he doesn't assume that gallery staff
   will let his prized Airedale terrier have the run of the office.
   
   Things are different across the river at the National Arts Centre
   Orchestra, where on at least one occasion Pinchas Zukerman's
   wife, cellist Amanda Forsyth, installed the couple's dog in the
   Conductor's Dressing Room while Zukerman was performing elsewhere.
   The guest conductor at the NACO that week presumably agreed that
   every dog must have his day.
   
   The pooch incident has come to symbolize what some close to the
   NACO regard as an alarming sense of entitlement on the part of
   the orchestra's power couple.  It may also offer a small clue
   in the continuing mystery of why Zukerman and Forsyth, who is
   principal cellist, have both abandoned the orchestra in the
   middle of the season.
   
   Late last month, the NACO announced that the orchestra's
   energetic music director was tired and had decided to cancel all
   his concerts (and forgo payment for performing them) at the NAC
   till June.  Zukerman hasn't uttered a public word on the subject,
   and his New York agent says he doesn't intend to.  At about the
   same time as his departure became known, Forsyth went on indefinite
   medical leave.  ...

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