Kaptainis: YNS is going places — and standing by the OM

Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct six of 12 Orchestre Métropolitain subscription concerts next season in the Maison symphonique.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who could easily move into an Upper West Side co-op within walking distance of Metropolitan Opera and let the OM fade into his illustrious history.
But the echt-Montréalais maestro has no intention of abandoning his hometown band.
“Why would I leave?” he asked rhetorically not long ago at the b