‘Baltimore is in for an adventure’: Newly named BSO music director Jonathon Heyward makes Lincoln Center debut with ‘rock star’ performance

Jonathon Heyward, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s new music director designate, recently came across a 10-year-old photograph of himself standing in front of Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. He was facing that classical music mecca and bowing from the waist, palms pressed together and fingers pointing skyward as if in prayer. ”I was saying, ‘One day, please, I will stand on that stage and conduct an orchestra,” Heyward said. “Please. One day.”