Behind the Baton

To speak of Gerard Schwarz – musician, conductor, festival organizer, gig hopper, educator, television personality, patron and proselytizer of the arts – is to tell an exemplary American story. You could convey it exclusively in clichés, from his industrious émigré parents to his precocious childhood, from his ardor and diligence as a prodigy trumpeter to his meteoric rise as a conductor, from his unforeseen cross-country migration to the gradual construction of a world-class orchestra in a city