UPDATE: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Responds to Honorary Conductor Bernard Haitink's Anniversary Boycott

UPDATE: "Over the past five years the management, our planning department and Bernard Haitink have had contact on a regular basis. In the past years the flexibility which other prominent conductors offered to make concert sessions for Bernard Haitink has reached its reasonable limitation." -- RCO

Snubbed by his Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, honorary conductor Bernard Haitink is cutting ties with the ensemble that made him.

The decision comes after the conductor claimed he was spurned at the RCO's 125th anniversary celebration.

In short, Haitink told Dutch newspaper Het Parool that the orchestra's management ignored him, making him feel humiliated and preciously unloved.

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