BBC Leader dies
RIPFriends are reporting the death yesterday of Bela Dekany, leader of the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Boulez, Gennady Rozhdestvensky and John Pritchard.
Bela was 94.
A Holocaust survivor from Hungary, he formed a Dekany String Quartet in Holland in the 1960s before joining the BBC as concertmaster of its flagship orchestra in 1969.
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