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A representative for Nelson's shared his letter to the BSO community with NPR, in which the conductor says he did not anticipate or want the board and Smith's decision.
Both sides declined to share further information about the split.
Nelsons is in demand globally.
He also leads the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and this weekend he's guest conducting the Vienna Philharmonic.
New York Times classical music critic David Allen says he could see the rift with the Boston Symphony coming.
Nelsons is known as a traditionalist, whereas Smith is known for innovation.
In a video accompanying Netflix's announcement, Ben Affleck says his company Interpositives Technology does not enable filmmakers to build scenes from scratch using prompts.
It allows them to build their own AI models based on the scenes they've already shot.
In an email to NPR, IATSE, the main union supporting Hollywood's technical workers, said it does not comment on mergers and acquisitions.
This is just the latest agreement the Oscar-winning filmmaker has struck with Netflix.
Earlier this week, Affleck and Matt Damon's production company, Artists' Equity, signed a major partnership with the streamer.
The 45-second-long silent film Gugus il Automat, or Gugus and the Automaton, is nearly 130 years old.
But the subject matter feels very timely.
A child-sized robot clown grows to the size of an adult and then attacks a human clown with a stick.
The human then destroys the machine with a hammer.
In an Instagram post, Library of Congress Moving Image curator Jason Evans-Groff says the film arrived in a box from a donor in Michigan, Bill McFarland.
McFarland's great-grandfather, William Delisle Frisbee, a Pennsylvania potato farmer and schoolteacher, was fascinated by new technologies.
The film is available on the Library of Congress's website.