Slatkin Takes His Last Triumphant Bow ; Proms 2004

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The Last Night Albert Hall

CRITICS have often responded negatively to Leonard Slatkin's four years as Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, but he has always had an easy rapport with audiences. Perhaps that has something to with the quiet dignity he brought to the 2001 Last Night of the Proms, just a few days after 9/11.

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Slatkin Takes His Last Triumphant Bow ; Proms 2004

This, though, was his last Last Night, and it fell on the third anniversary of 9/11. Not that the audience was in...

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