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April 24, 2024

Yuri Temirkanov, artistic director and principal conductor of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, leads the orchestra in the performance of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2005, during opening night at Carnegie Hall in New York.

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Yuri Temirkanov, artistic director and principal conductor of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, leads the orchestra in the performance of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2005, during opening night at Carnegie Hall in New York.