Hey, folks, this is a special encore presentation of the Eric Metaxe show featuring my guest, Ignat Solzhen,

the son of the great Alexander Solzhenitin, who's one of the men in my new book, Seven More Men.

Stay tuned.

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Now your host, until further notice, Eric Mataxis.

Folks, we have a special guest today in the studio.

This is a great thing about being in New York.

You never know who can come to New York or who lives in New York.

I'm sitting here in the studio with Ignaut Solzhenitsyn. He is the principal guest conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra,

and he is the conductor laureate of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and he's with me

today. Ignat Solzhenitin, welcome to the program. Great to be here. Now, I don't know how long

I can kid my audience into thinking that, you know,

you're just any old souls in each, and there's got to be zillions of them in Russia. But the way

that you come here today and the way that I've come to know you is as the son of one of the people in history that I revere more than almost anyone else, the great Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

So I have to ask you, we're living in a world today where so many people would not know because they're not as old as I am, let's say, or they don't happen to be the sons of Alexander Solzhenits.

They wouldn't automatically know who he is.

Now, I want to interview you about you and your career as a musician.

There's so much we can talk about, but I thought

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