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However, Hirshhorn did not stay long in Israel.  After he succeeded in performing several concerts and even participated indirectly in military action during the Yom Kippur War  (the only émigré artist who played for soldiers, see the video), he emigrated with his...
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Some concert programmes of...
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In the summer of 1976, upon the personal request of the King and Queen of Belgium addressed to Leonid Brezhnev, the Leningrad artist Nina Alekseeva was released from the Soviet Union and allowed to travel to Belgium. Her release surprised everyone, including Alekseeva...
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Hirshhorn began teaching initially in Utrecht (The Netherlands) and then, as from 1985, in Brussels. No one could foresee what this would lead to, but as it turned out, from these two classes, in Utrecht and Brussels, over the course of ten years, there came a...
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After finding himself once again to be a ‘free artist’ after his dismissal from the orchestra, Philippe again began to perform in concerts. He later said in an interview that it was hard to name a country where he had not been. He again traveled to Japan...