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Ioan Hollender, Enescu music festival's Honorary President and Artistic Director, adresses the audience before the opening concert of the 20th Enescu music festival, an international classical music festival, at the Sala Mare a Palatului concert hall or The Grand Palace Hall in Bucharest on September 1, 2011. The Bucharest festival was set up in 1958 to pay tribute to the Romanian composer and violinist George Enescu (1881-1955), whose pupils included the late Yehudi Menuhin and who is known for his symphonies and Romanian rhapsodies. Tens of thousands of spectators are expected to attend with ticket prices maintained low in a time of economic rigour. Thirteen
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Ioan Hollender, Enescu music festival's Honorary President and Artistic Director, adresses the audience before the opening concert of the 20th Enescu music festival, an international classical music festival, at the Sala Mare a Palatului concert hall or The Grand Palace Hall in Bucharest on September 1, 2011. The Bucharest festival was set up in 1958 to pay tribute to the Romanian composer and violinist George Enescu (1881-1955), whose pupils included the late Yehudi Menuhin and who is known for his symphonies and Romanian rhapsodies. Tens of thousands of spectators are expected to attend with ticket prices maintained low in a time of economic rigour. Thirteen "great orchestras of the world" including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France and the London Symphony Orchestra, will perform along with such renowned soloists as French pianist Helene Grimaud, Russia's Boris Berezovsky and China's Yundi Li. AFP PHOTO/DANIEL MIHAILESCU (Photo credit should read DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP/Getty Images)
UPLOADED ON 2011-09-01 PHOTO BY AFP/Getty Images
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