Friday 1 August 2008

quiet recognition at last

Finally, after seeing article after article come out in the UK regarding Valery Gergiev, Lichfield Festival has finally had some public acknowledgement for giving him his UK debut in 1987. While this appeared in last Saturday's The Knowledge, the hard copy was dropped through the Festival Office earlier today. Our scanner couldn't cope with the whole article, but we're right there at the start of the graph.
'A low-key British debut at the Lichfield Festival gets a thumbs-up from The Times: Gergiev is "magnificently in control" in a programme of typically Russian highlights, the overture to Ruslan and Ludmila and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony'

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