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Article: The top 25 classical performers.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- October 22, 1999
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1. Serge Koussevitzky
Music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 25 years - a record tenure only just broken by Seiji Ozawa - he left a formidable legacy. It includes such illustrious commissions as Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes" and Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra" and this country's foremost summer music festival and professional training program at Tanglewood.
2. Maria Callas
The Greek-American soprano redefined 19th century opera as a complete musical-dramatic experience for the 20th century. Even on recordings - and her recorded legacy from the 1950s and '60s is considerable - the completeness of her art still shines across ...