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New Review: The Jean Sibelius Web Pages Salute Conductor Neeme Järvi. We are pleased to bring our readers a review celebrating Neeme Järvi's Sibelius recordings with the Göteborgs Symfoniker:

To Read Our Review of Järvi Conducting En Saga and Tapiola, and other tone poems Click Here to Visit.

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Gravestone of Jean and Aino Sibelius at Ainola
(Sent to the Sibelius Web Pages from a reader in Helsinki)

In answering the Quizlet poll question "Whom Do You Consider the Greatest Sibelius Conductor of the Present," 200 respondents answered:

32% - Paavo Berglund (64 votes)
20% - Vladimir Ashkenazy (40 votes)
16% - Esa-Pekka Salonen (32 votes)
14% - Mariss Jansons (28 votes)
10% - Lorin Maazel (20 votes)
9% - Paavo Järvi (18 votes)

In answering the Quizlet poll question "Whom Do You Consider the Greatest Sibelius Conductor of the Past," 300 respondents answered:

31% - Sir John Barbirolli (93 votes)
21% - Eugene Ormandy (63 votes)
18% - Herbert von Karajan (54 votes)
12% - Leopold Stokowski (36 votes)
10% - Sir Thomas Beecham (30 votes)
9% - Serge Koussevitzky (27 votes)

The top three vote-getters from each category are now facing off in our new question (Please vote only once: The voter who cast about 250 votes in one day for his favorite should either be ashamed of himself or seek employment in the Al Gore campaign):

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