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It’s not maestro as usual in Montreal Robert Everett-Green The Globe and Mail April 9, 2005 Kent Nagano : «...An orchestra should be a window into the heart and soul of the community,» he said. «And the community should feel that the concert hall is its home.» When he listens to the OSM, he said, he hears the product of a mixed sensibility, blended from traits found on either side of the Atlantic, and enlivened by the bilingual and cosmopolitan nature of the city. «The orchestra plays with a precision, and a rapidity of reading and perfecting repertoire, that reflects very much the new world,» he said. «Yet the sound and vocabulary of its musical expression reflects very much the old world.»...