The Metropole Orchestra is the only full-time orchestra in the world which provides performances in jazz and pop. This makes it unique in the world and the list of international celebrities who works the orchestra is too long. Founder Dolf van der Linden, which the orchestra in the fifties managed to set as the leading radio orchestra. The rise of television caused the Metropole also guided the
… Dutch entries for the Eurovision Song Contest. Later conductors were Rogier van Otterloo (1980-1988), Dick Bakker (1988-1995) and Vince Mendoza (1995-). In 2010 the orchestra threatens to have to disappear, because the right-wing minority government will withdraw the subsidies completely. It leads to an outcry among music lovers.more