Kurt Masur (born 1927), the former conductor of Leipzig's Gewandhaus Orchestra and reluctant East German revolutionary leader, now conducts the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. An internationally-accl...
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Leipzig, Germany (dpa) - Kurt Masur, the great German orchestral
conductor, says that with his 80th birthday coming up on Wednesday he
has no plans to retire.
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Lorin Maazel will close out his seven years as music director of the New York Philharmonic by conducting Mahler's "Symphony of a Thousand.""It seems to be an appropriate closing statement," Maazel ...
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Conducting an orchestra may be the most mysterious profession. All successful maestros must have an acute ear for musical sound, a mastery of the score that finds underlying order among dizzying co...
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“All these great soloists and conductors are family,” said Avi Shoshani, the secretary general of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. “Everyone I invited accepted immediately, and ...
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Classical music may be a last bastion of formality, but practically everyone at the New York Philharmonic calls its new music director just "Alan."Alan Gilbert, a 40-year-old native New Yorker, was...
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New York (dpa) - The New York Philharmonic will be in Pyongyang
for just 48 hours in February for its first visit ever, giving the
North Koreans a rare taste of classical an...
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Kurt Masur
FEATURE: Kurt Masur at 80: Do I stop and wait to die?
