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MusicDecember 1998 Concert note On the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, conducted by Yuri Temirkanov, at Carnegie Hall. The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra gave three concerts at Carnegie Hall on successive evenings in early October under the leadership of Yuri Temirkanov, now celebrating his tenth year as principal conductor.[1] Among the many remarkable aspects of this ensemble, one thing stands out— something almost unthinkable in this age of the artistic jet set and the lionization of a few conductors as they occupy too many podia on a part-time basis. This orchestra has had only two conductors in the past sixty years. Mr. Temirkanov (pronounced with an accent over the ‘a’) took up the near impossible task of filling the shoes of the legendary Evgeny Mravinsky, a saintly and quietly heroic musician who molded the orchestra during his fifty-year reign into one of the supreme instruments on either side of the Iron Curtain. Mravinsky championed new mu ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 17 December 1998, on page 61 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/petersburgphilharmonic-coleman-2965
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