Chicago music lovers should enjoy James Jolly’s enlightening article in next month’s Gramophone Magainze. The article is on page 26 of the February issue and is entitled: “The end of the affair.” It is all about the planned departure of Christoph Eschenbach from the Philadelphia Orchestra. It goes on to compare Eschenbach’s untimely departure from Philadelphia to Rafael Kubelik’s departure from the Chicago Symphony. It explains how newspaper critics, Perter Dobrin, David Patrick Stearns and Claudia Cassidy had so much influence on the career of these conductors. Chicago music lovers are very familiar with Eschenbach from his many summers conducting the Chicago Symphony at Ravinia. Some Chicago music lovers have been around long enough to remember Kubelik’s term with the Chicago Symphony even though it was short. I recommend this article because it sheds some light on the reasons for the Eschenbach’s upcoming departure and compares it to Kubelik’s departure and shows that in both cases newspaper music critics wield powerful influences.