Which Maestro is this as a young man?
mainThis friendly young violinist is an eminent conductor on today’s international stage.
Who is he?
UPDATE: Another clue? Here’s how he looks today.
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A young Leif Segerstam.
Jaap?
….thats a really hard one – copy the pic to your hd and it says what Max said…;-)) Anyway a nice pic and far away of what he looks now…
Spoiler Alert: No need to copy. Right-click on any image on any website then select “Search Google for Image.” Takes all the fun out of pictorial quizzes.
Does Norman think that Jaap is “eminent”?
Well he does think that Jaap is “eminently” [insert choice of depreciatory descriptor here].
Simone Young
Yes, Leif Segerstam, unrecognizable!
Could pass for George Pretre – if he were a violinist that is…..
Andris Nelsons
Played trumpet
Mariss Jansons – how many guesses before you reveal who it is?
https://slippedisc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/leif-segerstam.jpg
Whether the years have taken a toll on his frame, Leif still delivered himself of an immense Bruckner 8 last year with the BBCSO which blew the bloody doors off, and even delayed Radio 3’s schedule, clocking in at 1 hour and 43 minutes!
Not difficult, since an excellent vdo was posted less than 6 weeks ago of Segerstam conducting Scheherazade looking precisely as in the second photo!
I remember the much slimmer Segerstam conducting Entfuhrung in Salzburg way back in the early 1970s.
And, thinner still, a wonderfully energetic Freischutz Overture with the Juilliard Orchestra ca. 1965 at one of their “1:00 Concerts” reserved for student conductors. I also recall his kind, thoughtful “subbing” for a frail Bernard Wagenaar in the latter’s Literature and Materials of Music (AKA: theory/harmony) in which he showed us in only a few sessions all that the ailing Wagenaar had not been teaching us, though so tactfully not throwing the venerable Wagenaar under the bus.
it’s the young Leif Segerstam. Now “Papa Big Bear”…
Looks like the personification of Moses to me!!!!
I am the only one who thinks that Segerstam looks like Brahms… ?
Exactly what I thought, both in youthful photos and in latter ones.