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I’ve wanted to do all my life. Like every other musician, though, I’ve also had an awful lot of
time to think. What is the future like? What will be there on the other side?”
The immediate future for Rattle is not all about the LSO. On September 5 he returns to his old
stamping ground, Birmingham, to conduct the CBSO in a streamed concert from a warehouse in
Longbridge, 100 years to the day after the orchestra’s first concert. This month the CBSO’s
music director Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla is expecting her second child. “When Mirga became
pregnant the CBSO asked me to step in, and I am honoured to do it,” Rattle says.
When he first conducted the CBSO he must have been one of the youngest people in the room.
Now he is likely among the oldest. “Yup, thanks for reminding me,” he says. “I am trying not to
feel too much like a museum piece.”
Details of Sunday’s LSO Prom are on bbc.co.uk/proms; the LSO’s season is on lso.co.uk;
the CBSO centenary is on cbso.co.uk/event/cbso100
