Kurt Masur

Famed 84-Year-Old Conductor Topples From Podium

AP | THOMAS ADAMSON | Posted 04.27.2012

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PARIS -- Kurt Masur, the legendary former director of the New York Philharmonic, was recovering from injuries in a hospital on Friday after he fell of...

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Susan Wadsworth: Almost 50 Years of Young Concert Artists Series

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Not many people can fulfill their passion - and build an institution - for fifty years. Susan Wadsworth can. The founder of the Young Concert Artist...

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Alan Gilbert: New York Philharmonic's Incoming Music Director

Wall Street Journal | BARRYMORE LAURENCE SCHERER | Posted 05.25.2011

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"I'm feeling like a kid in a candy shop," says conductor Alan Gilbert to his wife, cellist Kajsa -William-Olsson. "A very privileged kid." We are walk...

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