Today's New York Times magazine cover story is on conductor Valery Gergiev, who will visit Boston and the Celebrity Series with the London Symphony on March 25 for a program of Beethoven and Prokofiev. Below is the second paragraph of the very in-depth article:
"The burned-out hulks of bombarded buildings testified to the fury of the fighting that took place when Georgia unsuccessfully tried to seize control of its breakaway region. Russian troops had occupied the town barely a week earlier, in support of the secessionist Ossetians. Speaking in English as well as in Russian on a live television broadcast, Gergiev told the crowd, 'I am Ossetian myself,' and explained that he had come 'to see with my own eyes the horrible destruction of this city' and to perform a concert in honor of the dead. 'If it wasn’t for the help of the Russian Army here, there would be thousands and thousands more victims,' he said. 'I am very grateful as Ossetian to my great country, Russia, for this help.'
Read all of The Loyalist.
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