Ego at play

The Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky bails out of concerts with the Boston Symphony because his name isn't displayed as prominently as he would like in promotional materials. That forces the Boston Symphony's assistant conductor, Julian Kuerti, to step in, consequently canceling an Edmonton Symphony concert in which he was to accompany his father, pianist Anton Kuerti:

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