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THERE will no doubt be a clashing of symbols and much bowing and scraping in all its forms tomorrow when the massed ranks of Liverpool's illustrious Philharmonic Orchestra raise their bows to pay a 70th birthday tribute to their former boss and mentor Libor Pesek.
In what promises to be an emotion-fuelled evening, the distinguished Czech conductor wings into town to wield once more his famous baton over the musicians he still holds in deep affection; six years after what many of his Scouse chums would portray, if rather tongue in cheek, as a defection and dereliction of duty.
When Libor Pesek left, abruptly,after an 11-year tenure of waving his baton almost daily at the massed ranks of the RLPO, there was many a damp hankie waved disconsolately He laughs that it was a decision taken with his head,not his heart. "And I still think it was the right one," commented Libor speaking from his office in Prague as we chatted about the birthday bash organised by his old squad.
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