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In 2003, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for his album "Virtuosi" (Concord) with Burton.
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What he did not relate but is revealed in media stories is that Spivakov, already a famous violinist, created the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra in 1979 but found that after the fall of the Soviet Union life was untenable for many orchestra members.
Evelyn Leopold: VE Day at the UN: Tchaikovsky and a Bit of Politics (update) 2010
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What he did not relate but is revealed in media stories is that Spivakov, already a famous violinist, created the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra in 1979 but found that after the fall of the Soviet Union life was untenable for many orchestra members.
Evelyn Leopold: VE Day at the UN: Tchaikovsky and a Bit of Politics 2010
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Vladimir Spivakov, artistic director and principal conductor of the State chamber orchestra Moscow Virtuosi and the National Philharmonic of Russia, has shared his favorite places to hear and appreciate theater and music in Moscow, from the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied, to the historic Maly Theater, the oldest theater in Moscow.
Introducing a collection of favorite places from around the world 2009
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Vladimir Spivakov, artistic director and principal conductor of the State chamber orchestra Moscow Virtuosi and the National Philharmonic of Russia, has shared his favorite places to hear and appreciate theater and music in Moscow, from the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied, to the historic Maly Theater, the oldest theater in Moscow.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Vladimir Spivakov, artistic director and principal conductor of the State chamber orchestra Moscow Virtuosi and the National Philharmonic of Russia, has shared his favorite places to hear and appreciate theater and music in Moscow, from the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied, to the historic Maly Theater, the oldest theater in Moscow.
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Also, updated the post for Virtuosi with a bunch of links from Director Notes.
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A Collec - tion of Discourses of the Virtuosi of France, published in 1664 and 1665, was originally French but much at home in England in both the original and in translation.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968
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Discussing classical antiquities such as statues, inscriptions, coins, he said that the possession of rarities, because of their cost, “doth properly belong to Princes, or rather to princely minds,” then added, “such as are skilled in them, are by the Italians termed Virtuosi.”
VIRTUOSO MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968
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Conceptions of the_ Virtuosi, _whose Liberty of Writing and Inventing, enrich'd the Schools and Libraries with gallant Composures; and to enslave the Wits of Learned Men, was to rob the World of those alluring
Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) Samuel Cobb
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