Detroit Symphony Orchestra - DSO Music Director Timeline
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DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MUSIC DIRECTOR TIMELINE 

1 Weston Gales 1914 - 1917 (old) Detroit Opera House
2 Ossip Gabrilowitsch 1918 - 1936 Orchestra Hall
3 Franco Ghione 1936 - 1940

Masonic Auditorium

4 Victor Kolar 1940 - 1942 Masonic Auditorium
  No performances 1942 - 1944  
5 Karl Krueger 1944 - 1949 Music Hall
6 Paul Paray 1951 - 1963 Masonic Auditorium
7 Sixten Ehrling 1963 - 1973 Ford Auditorium
8 Aldo Ceccato 1973 - 1977 Ford Auditorium
9 Antal Dorati 1977 - 1981 Ford Auditorium/Orchestra Hall
  Gary Bertini, Music Advisor 1981 - 1983 Ford Auditorium
10 Gunther Herbig    1984 - 1990 Ford Auditorium/Orchestra Hall 
11 Neeme Järvi 1990 - 2005 Orchestra Hall
12 Leonard Slatkin 2008/09 - Orchestra Hall at the
Max M. Fisher Music Center