Handed the torch at about 9.40am, Esa-Pekka ran from St Martin's Le-Grand, along Cheapside and King Street before finishing on Gresham Street, covering a distance of roughly 330 yards. After his relay lap Salonen tweeted '“At last something Otto Klemperer wouldn't have been able to do better. Perhaps. My only gripe: Joanna Lumley was not in my group.”
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US Tour 2012
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