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Sir Malcolm Sargent breathed life into the BBC Proms. Yet for all his fame and fortune, says Andrew Green, the conductor’s personality and music-making heavily divided opinion
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Detroit Symphony Orchestra Music Director Jader Bignamini returns from Italy to conduct a program on Friday that will highlight works by Jessie Montgomery and Richard Strauss, and feature Beethoven's Third Symphony, the celebrated "Eroica." The Detroit News caught up with Bignamini via Zoom to chat COVID-19 restrictions, having to travel without his family, and why the "Eroica" is a turning point in musical history. You've been back home in Italy since September. When did you return to Detroit? Jader Bignamini: "I arrived back here two weeks ago." Did you have to quarantine? "Yes. It was pr...