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With a young Ukrainian coming in as principal conductor against brilliant ex-Soviet rivals in Liverpool and Birmingham, you might have expected the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra to plaster its programme with glamour pics of Kirill Karabits. Not a bit of it. Perhaps under sponsorship pressure, Bournemouth has decorated it seasonal brochure with chocolates from the kind of box a maiden aunt would have cracked open at the Wednesday matinee of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Each concert is paired with one of Terry’s All Gold classics - pralines for Dvorak, heart shapes for Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, no cliché unturned. Karabits, 31, was elected last year by a ‘unanimous vote of the musicians’ – surely a first outside Soviet Russia – to succeed the high-profile though sometimes distracted Marin Alsop. He has good credentials in Budapest and Paris but he will need lots of help to match the explosive lift-offs of Vasily Petrenko and Andris Nelsons with other regional orchestras. Decking out his programme in auntie’s matinee dips does not suggest that Bournemouth is breaking out of its blue-rinse image – or that Karabits, if he's any good, will want to stay very long. To be notified of the next Lebrecht article, please email mikevincent at scena dot org Visit every week to read Norman Lebrecht's latest column. [Index] 
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