Don’t look for Jaap van Zweden to throw out the first pitch at a Rangers game anytime soon. The world-renowned music director for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra–who just re-upped with the DSO through the 2015-16 season–has been hobbled by a strain in his right shoulder that’s caused him to cancel or withdraw from some concerts this summer. He likens the injury to “the usual problems that a pitcher or a conductor is once in awhile facing,” adding that he dealt with an identical strain three years ago.
“It’s getting a little better, and I hope that next season will be better for my shoulder,” van Zweden (file photo by Jeanne Prejean) said yesterday in his office at the Meyerson Symphony Center. “It’s an inflammation that you have to get rid of. It takes time. You got to listen to your body sometime, and the body says, ‘You better calm down a little bit here and there.’ We do exercises. I go to a fantastic doctor at Southwestern Medical Center, and he’s taking very good care of me. … Here and there we try to get some free time to let the shoulder rest, but that’s it.”
