During an international career that spanned nearly six decades, Kurt Masur (1927–2015) made his mark not only as a distinguished orchestra conductor, but also as a political activist. Masur, who was at the helm of the famed New York Philharmonic from 1991 to 2002, died on December 19 from complications of Parkinson’s disease. Born in what would become the communist-controlled...

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