Which Maestro is this as a young man?

Which Maestro is this as a young man?

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norman lebrecht

January 30, 2016

This friendly young violinist is an eminent conductor on today’s international stage.

Who is he?

leif segerstam

UPDATE: Another clue? Here’s how he looks today.

segerstam

 

Comments

  • Max Grimm says:
    January 30, 2016 at 1:15 pm

    A young Leif Segerstam.

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  • Mark Henriksen says:
    January 30, 2016 at 2:13 pm

    Jaap?

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    • Horst says:
      January 30, 2016 at 4:51 pm

      ….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…

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      • RODNEY GREENBERG says:
        January 31, 2016 at 12:41 am

        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.

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    • RW2013 says:
      January 30, 2016 at 5:18 pm

      Does Norman think that Jaap is “eminent”?

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  • elizaC says:
    January 30, 2016 at 3:31 pm

    Simone Young

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  • Tweettweet says:
    January 30, 2016 at 4:04 pm

    Yes, Leif Segerstam, unrecognizable!

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  • FreddyNYC says:
    January 30, 2016 at 5:06 pm

    Could pass for George Pretre – if he were a violinist that is…..

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  • Ed says:
    January 30, 2016 at 6:28 pm

    Andris Nelsons

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  • William says:
    January 30, 2016 at 6:46 pm

    Mariss Jansons – how many guesses before you reveal who it is?

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  • DESR says:
    January 30, 2016 at 9:34 pm

    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!

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  • Nick says:
    January 31, 2016 at 4:45 am

    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.

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    • Daniel F. says:
      January 31, 2016 at 1:42 pm

      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.

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  • Frank Storbeck says:
    January 31, 2016 at 6:13 am

    it’s the young Leif Segerstam. Now “Papa Big Bear”…

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  • Una says:
    January 31, 2016 at 4:27 pm

    Looks like the personification of Moses to me!!!!

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