The highly accomplished Polish conductor Tadeusz Strugała turns 90 this week.
Never a limelight seeker, he was music director of the Prague Symphony Orchestra and of the Turkish presidential orchestra. But his closest involvements were with the Polish radio orchestras in Katowice and Warsaw,where he served selflessly and made multiple recordings.
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