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Article: Phil's Emeritus honour for veteran maestro, 83; Sir Charles takes on role at opening 09 concerts.(News)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- January 13, 2009
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Byline: BY PHILIP KEY Daily Post Arts Editor
SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS, one of Britain's greatest conductors, was at the age of 83 back at work in Liverpool yesterday.
He was busy rehearsing the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in two of its first major concerts of the year.
They will feature the 27-year-old violinist Sarah Chang, a big name newcomer on the classical scene, playing the Brahms violin concerto and making her Liverpool debut.
With Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and Wagner's Flying Dutchman Overture also on the bill in the concerts tomorrow and Friday at the Philharmonic Hall, it will be a typically muscular programme for the ...