World's best: Mariss Jansons bringing Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to Kennedy Center

The greatest living conductor is bringing the greatest orchestra in the world to the Kennedy Center this coming week. Don't take my word for it. When a panel of international critics was polled about orchestras, Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra came out on top. As for its music director, Mariss Jansons, he leads both No. 1 and No. 6 -- the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra -- in that 2008 ranking. He turns down most other conducting invitations. The only two other orchestras he works wi...