pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/frail-feisty-masur-opens-baltic-music-festival-095042582.html"img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/dY1Mitj6mltahhEUTMUbaw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-09-17T113033Z_1_CBRE88G0VYZ00_RTROPTP_2_BRAZIL-WONDERS-STATUE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="German conductor Kurt Masur gestures in front of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro" align="left" title="German conductor Kurt Masur gestures in front of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro" border="0" //aPEENEMUENDE, Germany (Reuters) - German conductor Kurt Masur, 85, frail but feisty as he opened the Usedom Music Festival in Germany by leading the Baltic Youth Philharmonic in Shostakovich#039;s First Symphony, attributed his recovery after a severe fall partly to the power of music. Masur injured his shoulder when he fell off a stage in Paris in April. He had to be helped to the podium on Saturday night for the opening concert in the vast turbine hall of a former power station that served the Nazi rocket program on the Baltic Sea island during World War Two. .../pbr clear="all"/
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