Kurt Masur and pianist, Claudio Arrau in San Francisco c. 1979.
Kurt Masur with violinist Igor Oistrakh, in September 1968.
Kurt Masur and soprano Jessye Norman, receiving doctors of music from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1987.
Kurt Masur and violinist Yehudi Menuhin in Leipzig in 1981.
Kurt Masur with pianist Rudolph Firkusny, in Venice.
Kurt Masur with Walter Felsenstein at the Komische Oper in Berlin in 1969.
Kurt Masur with conductor Evegeny Mravinsky in December 1970.
Kurt Masur with Herbert von Karajan in Leipzig in 1981.
Kurt Masur with pianist Sviatoslav Richter, at the Baalbeck Music Festival in Lebanon in 1969.
Kurt Masur with fellow conductors and New York Philharmonic music directors, Zubin Mehta (left) and Pierre Boulez (right) during the Philharmonic's 150th season, 1992-1993.
Kurt Masur with Leonard Bernstein during Maestro's Bernstein's visit to Leipzig with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1988.
On stage with violinist Issac Stern during Opening Night of the 1998-1999 season.
Kurt Masur with Issac Stern.
Kurt Masur and the soccer team of the Gewandhaus Orchestra.
Kurt Masur and the Ladies of the Gewandhaus Orchestra.
Maestro Masur and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter after their concert with the Youth Orchestra of Europe in Warsaw in 2000 with German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski.
Kurt Masur at the National Arts Club in New York with US Ambassador to the United Nations, Richard Holbrooke (left) and soprano Sylvia McNair (right).
Kurt Masur with film director Spike Lee (left), and jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis (right), after the New York Philharmonic's performance of Mr. Marsalis' composition: "All Rise" at Avery Fisher Hall.
Kurt Masur and jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, in a working rehearsal on Mr. Marsalis' commission by the New York Philharmonic: "All Rise".
Kurt Masur with composer Alfred Schnittke in Leipzig in May 1985.
Kurt Masur with composer Giya Kancheli in Leipzig in May 1985.
Kurt Masur with composers of "Messages for the Millennium" commissions in 1999. (From left to right) Somei Satoh, Thomas Adès, Hans Werner Henze, Maestro Masur, Kaija Saariaho, John Corigliano.
Kurt Masur with New York Philharmonic's Principal violist, Cynthia Phelps and New York Philharmonic's Associate Principal violist, Rebecca Young at Avery Fisher Hall. Maestro Masur's wife, Tomoko, commissioned a double viola concerto "Two Paths" from Sofia Gubaidulina for the two violists that the New York Philharmonic and Kurt Masur premiered in 1999.
Kurt Masur with from left to right wife Tomoko, son Ken David, Sting and Trudie Styler after the New York Philharmonic's opening concert of the season in 1999.
Kurt Masur with US Ambassador to the United Nations, Richard Holbrooke, and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa at the New York Philharmonic's opening night gala in September 2000.
Kurt Masur with US Ambassador to the United Nations, Richard Holbrooke (left) and New York Commissioner for Culture, Schuyler Chapin (right) at the New York Philharmonic's opening night gala in September 2000.
Kurt Masur with the President of France, Francois Mitterand, during Mr. Mitterand's visit to Leipzig in 1989.
Kurt Masur with from left to right, New York Philharmonic's chairman, Stephen Stamas, former New York Philharmonic's Music Director and fellow conductor Zubin Mehta and former New York Philharmonic's Music Director and fellow conductor, Pierre Boulez in Salzburg after the New York Philharmonic's performance at the Festival during the Orchestra's European Festival tour in 1997.
Kurt Masur with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, at a reception at Mr. Annan's residence.
Kurt and Tomoko Masur with New York Philharmonic's board chairman, Stephen and Elaine Stamas at a Taverna in Athens, Greece during the New York Philharmonic's tour of Europe in June 1995.