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Leonard Bernstein will conduct three concerts in Moscow this week with the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra. Saluting perestroika , glasnost and Bernstein’s 70th birthday, all of the musicians will perform without fee and the concerts will benefit the U.S.S.R. Musical Society, Culture Fund and Orphans Fund. Other conductors include Lucas Richman from Los Angeles, Rainer Muhlbach from East Germany, Yutaka Sado from Tokyo and Patrick Souillot from Paris. On the program for two of the concerts will be Bernstein’s composition “Songfest,” with several soloists from the United States. The programs will also include music by Brahms, Sibelius, Shostakovich and Strauss.

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