Where Kurt Masur will be laid to rest
mainThe mayor of Leipzig has announced that the former Gewandhaus Kapellmeister will be brought back for burial from the United States, where he spent most of his last years.
There will be a memorial concert in Bach’s church, St Thomas’s, and Kurt Masur will be laid to rest in the grove of honour in the city’s southern cemetery.
The funeral will take place in mid-January.
During the latter days of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany,) Kurt Mazur was active in the protest movements. When the government collapsed and the country essentially leaderless, there was talk, at least for a short time, of making Mazur an interim leader of the country. I’m surprised that this is hardly ever mentioned.
https://slippedisc.com/2015/12/what-kurt-masur-said-when-they-asked-him-to-become-german-president/
See about half-way down:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/20/arts/music/kurt-masur-new-york-philharmonic-conductor-dies.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0
Masur wasn’t active in any protest movement at any time.
His political role at the very day of October 9th 1989, and not a day before, came from the circumstance, that he was a respected figure by all sides, communist party leaders and dissidents. There were six signees under the bipartisan call for “no violence”, Masur one of them.
He’s called Masur, not Mazur!