Maestro lets rip in mid-concert

Maestro lets rip in mid-concert

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norman lebrecht

December 22, 2015

A rapturous performance of Scheherezade earlier this year by the symphony orchestra of Galicia, impressive in every respect. But at 45 minutes on the dot, the conductor erupts.

Fast-forward and watch.

segerstam

The conductor is the law-unto-himself Leif Segerstam, a loner even among Finns.

Mr Segerstam, 71, recently composed his 289th symphony.

It is titled ‘When the cat visited’.

 

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