Conductor Tugan Sokhiev, musical director of the Bolshoi Theater, where Vedernikov himself had officiated for eight years, from 2001 to 2009, speaks of a man committed to the future. "Born into a great musical family, Alexander Vedernikov was a repository of the great Russian tradition," he says. Nevertheless, he had worked with courage and determination to bring the Bolshoi into the twenty-first century, a course of reforms that we continue to hold.»
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