For those who keep score, three stolen scores has the Boston music community rocked.
"It was a catastrophe," Alfonso Piacentini, assistant conductor of the Boston Philharmonic, said Tuesday."That moment was just catastrophic."
This all started on Nov. 5, when Philharmonic Conductor Benjamin Zander's car was stolen from in front of his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Some of his belongings were located in Boston's Allston neighborhood, and after driving around, Piacentini located Zander's car. The relief was short-lived — three well-marked scores, a reflection of Zander's decades as a conductor, were missing from the car.Sign up for NECN newsletters.
"It is hours and hours and hours and decades of work that he has gone into, and of course it is really difficult to have it happen so close to the performance," said Elisabeth Christensen, managing director of the Philharmonic."He has been preparing the orchestra for this performance since September with these scores, and now, we have just two more rehearsals before he has to perform and he is starting from scratch with these scores.
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