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James DePreist, one of the first African-American conductors and a National Medal of Arts winner, died Friday at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz., his manager Jason Bagdade said.
"We are talking about a man with an international career, who achieved many things on international stages," Oregon Symphony conductor Carlos Kalmar said. "And you can only do that if _ aside from technicalities _ you are a real personality, someone the musicians look up to, and you keep the audiences very, very interested. And I think in that sense Jimmy was great."
