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The Philadelphia Orchestra concert in 1973 was the first cultural manifestation of the West.
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Mr Rosengard is a bass player in the Philadelphia Orchestra, whose curiosity began with his own instrument.
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Philadelphia Orchestra director Eugene Ormandy refused to shake Karajan's hand when the Berlin Philharmonic toured the U.S. in 1955.
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Lang played the final concerts with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Guangzhou and Shanghai and set off on a tour of various European halls.
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He was also music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, one of the most prestigious orchestras in the United States, between 1993 and 2003.
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In 1982, he became artistic director of the Bavarian State Opera and in 1993 he took the helm of the Philadelphia Orchestra, aged 70.
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The next evening these eight, together with the gifted double-bassist Joseph Conyers (a Savannah native now with the Philadelphia Orchestra), formed an ideal chamber orchestra for Mr. Knauer's delectable "Bach Meets Mozart" program.
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In September 1956, the Boston Symphony was the first major U.S. orchestra to visit the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and in the fall of 1973, the Philadelphia Orchestra made an unprecedented trip to China.
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One morning, while we were waiting to board a flight to the southeastern city of Guangzhou, where Lang was to perform another concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra, he admitted that the disapproval of peers is far more daunting than the crabbed notices of the critics.
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Before Welser-Moest became a conductor, he worked as a trained violinist with some of the most respected orchestras around the world, including the philharmonic orchestras of Vienna and Berlin, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, and the Orchestras of Philadelphia, Boston, Los Angeles and New York.
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