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          Big interview in yesterday's Corriere della Sera with Riccardo Muti about his new Chicago job..

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          Yuri Temirkanov, the renowned Russian conductor, passed away last Thursday, November 2, in St.

          Petersburg.

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        1. Ballet Film!
        2. Series VI: Audio-Visual Collection, This series contains pproximately recordings on audio tape, CD, DVD, LP, video tape and in digital format.
        3. Big interview in yesterday's Corriere della Sera with Riccardo Muti about his new Chicago job.
        4. Yuri Temirkanov -- aka Opera Chic's Uncle Solly -- will conduct the Bolshoi Orchestra in a Tchaikovsky/Borodin concert, Kurt Masur will lead.
        5. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Choruses Conducted by Yuri Temirkanov, Aleksandr Nevskii, Russia-FSU, War, Eisenstein, Sergei M. , Russian, English.

          6. He was 84.

          From the time of his appointment as artistic director in 1988, Temirkanov was credited with restoring the brilliance of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

          Between 2000 and 2006, he served as music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Additional titles included principal guest conductor of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and conductor laureate of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

          Temirkanov was known for his sweeping interpretations of the Russian repertoire, including the works of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich.

          In his November 2 Washington Post remembrance, Tim Page wrote, ”

          Like past masters such as Leopold Stokowski and Pierre Boulez, Mr. Temirkanov never used a baton, believing that he could lead more precisely without on