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Born. To Sir Georg Solti, 60, flamboyant Hungarian-born conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (TIME cover, May 7), and Lady (Valerie) Solti, 35: their second child, second daughter; in London. Name: Claudia Vanessa...
...appears that Maestro Solti in stabbing himself with his baton is perpetuating a tradition. It began with Jean Baptiste Lully, who, as an early ensemble conductor, clobbered his toe with the large cane he used to gesture toward his 24 violins. He died of resultant blood poisoning...
...Your article on Conductor Georg Solti [May 7] and the Chicago Symphony was just right. It was a romantic piece for a romantic orchestra...
...more recent times, stories abound concerning baton accidents. Maestro Alessandro stabbed himself. One conductor I know personally jabbed his left eye. Any musician can recall numerous occasions on which the "stick" has gone flying into the orchestra or audience-unintentionally, of course...
Nicholas Georgiadis, costume and scenery designer, has created a dazzling 17th century court and a forest that grows and gondolas that pierce thick smokescreen fogs. The dancers are sumptuously gowned in silks. Conductor George Crum, musical director of the ballet, evokes the heroic era of Czarist Russia in a polished interpretation...