Alex Brown
2023-11-19 20:11:08 UTC
"As head of two of Russia’s leading musical institutions, the Kirov (later, Mariinsky) Opera and Ballet Theatre (1976-88) and the Leningrad (later, St Petersburg) Philharmonic Orchestra, of which he was principal conductor for more than three decades from 1988, Yuri Temirkanov, who has died aged 84, was at the forefront of music in the Soviet Union for nearly half a century."
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/nov/19/yuri-temirkanov-obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/nov/19/yuri-temirkanov-obituary