For his conducting debut he led "West Side Story" with drum sticks, he has the same birthday as his compatriot Neeme Järvi, and was his country's junior lightweight boxing champion.
That is to say, Eri Klas will not only f*Xxor your symphony hall up, he will also kick your a$$ if you don't like it. Tonight and tomorrow the taurine conductor is taking his boxing gloves off to rawk Cincinnati's concert hall with Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra," Grieg's "Holberg Suite" and Bach's Violin Concerto in E Major, featuring CSO konzertmeister Timothy Lees.