Leonard Slatkin, the maestro of the National Symphony Orchestra, might be leaving our city for the grayer pastures of Detroit, but he’s not leaving empty-handed.
At an Institute for Education breakfast at the Washington Club on Friday, Mayor Adrian Fenty presented Slatkin with a painting in tribute to him. The work was a gift from IFE and the Swann Foundation, although the artist wished to remain anonymous.
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“This city really does owe you a debt,” Fenty said.
Slatkin, who has been here a dozen years, joked that “the conductor term limit is 12 years.”
But in his time in D.C., he noted that he was able to take up golf. “It gets me outside and it has increased my vocabulary,” he said.
Of course, work is never done for ww, even as a short-timer. After posing with the painting, he had to leave the event early to get to rehearsal.
