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Last Night In Chicago, History
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Takashi Asahina is 87 years old.
87 years · Takashi Asahina
Judy Kampfner, reporter
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The performance lasted an hour-and-a-quarter (1.25 hours).
1.25 hours · performance
Judy Kampfner, reporter
Last night in Chicago, history was made when 87-year-old Japanese conductor Takashi Asahina, music director of the Osaka Philharmonic, made his American orchestral debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 5, an hour-and-a-quarter's worth of conducting that would tax a man half Asahina's age. Judy Kampfner reports from Chicago on Asahina's debut after a lifetime of conducting orchestras in Japan, Berlin, Munich and Dresden.
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