Anton and Julian Kuerti take a bow with the Boston Pops.
The 70-year-old father is a world renowned classical pianist, the 32-year-old son one of the world’s top up and coming conductors, currently serving as associate conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Their last performance together, in March 2008, has grown into almost legendary status.
Anton Kuerti – who has lived in the same house for 40 years within walking distance of Jarvis Collegiate Institute, where his son graduated from – was in Boston specifically to watch his son Julian Kuerti make his conducting debut for the Boston Symphony.
But as fate would have it, guest pianist Leon Fleisher who was to play Beethoven’s Emperor Piano Concerto had to bow out because of food poisoning.
