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...Symphony, another orchestra with the capacity to rise, may yet regret its Faustian bargain with Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who gives it great media attention and a passionate commitment to Russian music but otherwise generally undistinguished musical leadership. Still more able orchestras can be found in Cincinnati, Houston, Rochester, Baltimore, Detroit and Atlanta...
...correlation between money and having a great orchestra," says Richard Bibler, president of the promising Milwaukee Symphony, which gets by on a budget of about $5 million a year, "but there is a gross correlation." Says Patricia Corbett, who, like her husband J. Ralph Corbett, is a prominent Cincinnati philanthropist: "An orchestra can be anything you want it to be if you are willing to pay the budget...
...Someone once said, 'To arrive at the top is difficult, but not impossible. To stay there is damned hard.' " But within the grouping at the top, the world-class orchestras can be counted on to show consistency and staying power, essential elements of their greatness. As the Cincinnati Symphony's general manager, Steven Monder, puts it, "I don't think an orchestra has a good concert or a good season or a good couple of seasons and all of a sudden it is one of the foremost orchestras in the world. It takes years and years...
Houston 6, Cincinnati...
Atlanta 6, Cincinnati...