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...insists that he feels young and fit; and, indeed, his gaze remains keen, his step springy and his stocky (5 ft. 5 in.) frame as muscular as ever. This summer he plans to lead the Philadelphians in their usual three-week residence at the Saratoga festival. Next season, as Conductor Laureate, he will merely cut back to 50 concerts (compared with 100 this season and as many as 180 in the past) and fill in his schedule with extensive guest conducting...
Ormandy is the last of that school, at least in the U.S. Hard working and efficient, attentive to his board of directors, suave but wary with the press, he has been called a "gray-flannel-suit conductor." Yet his devotion to the orchestra's excellence is unquestioned. In his programming he has been criticized for catering, as one critic put it privately, to "the dowager taste, to the Main Line bluebloods who put up the dough." He himself concedes: "I should have done more new works-the late Stravinsky, Copland, the whole contemporary group." His predecessor, the flamboyant Leopold...
...teens. But at 21, he was lured to the U.S. and then stranded by bungling promoters. Alone in New York, he was literally down to his last nickel when he landed a job in the orchestra that played between movies at the Capitol Theater. One day when the conductor failed to show, Ormandy led a section of a Tchaikovsky symphony on 15 minutes' notice. A new career beckoned...
...German conductor Peter Gulke led the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) into the U.S. premiere of a recently discovered fragment by Franz Schubert Saturday night...
...Gulke, conductor of the Dresden State Opera, orchestrated the movement in 1978 after musicologists discovered it in a sketchbook of Schubert's and dated it two weeks before the composer's death...