Russia’s St. Petersburg Philharmonic will be playing a reduced home schedule and increasing its touring beginning this July, as the city’s premiere concert hall closes for a major renovation. “The renovation is all the more challenging now that the [music director Yuri Temirkanov] has just removed the company’s executive director Vladimir Gronsky. The Philharmonic hasn’t had much luck with its managers, having changed three directors over the past ten years, with all of them being forced to resign before the end of their contracts.”