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...post of music director for the Chicago Symphony is sometimes known as a conductor's Waterloo. No wonder. Artur Rodzinski lasted exactly one year before the dissatisfied trustees ousted him. Rafael Kubelik was hounded out of the job by Claudia Cassidy, the relentlessly hostile-toward Kubelik, at any rate- but now retired critic of the Chicago Tribune. Jean Martinon quit last year after a series of disputes that culminated in a clash with his musicians over discipline. The only recent conductor to succeed in the job was the late Fritz Reiner, a Hungarian with Germanic musical tastes, who brilliantly...
Undaunted by Chicago's reputation, Conductor Georg Solti has decided that if Reiner could win that kind of fray, he can too. Perhaps the fact that Solti is also a Hungarian with distinct Germanic musical preferences had something to do with his decision to sign on for three years. Certainly, any conductor would think twice before turning down the Chicago offer. It reportedly pays $90,000 a year, and though Solti will be responsible for planning the orchestra's entire year, he will only have to conduct three months of subscription concerts. But the overriding reason...
Natural Rhythm. If anyone can do it, Solti (pronounced Shol-tee) is the man. Currently music director of London's Covent Garden, and a frequent guest conductor at the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic, Solti last week concluded a three-week guest engagement with the Chicago Symphony prior to the formal takeover in September. His final concert-devoted entirely to Mahler's Second Symphony-demonstrated the kind of technical brilliance and interpretive sagacity that have made him one of the world's half-dozen best conductors. The audience gave Solti one of the biggest ovations...
...FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). Andre Watts prepares and performs Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24, assisted by Conductor Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic...
Still scarred by memories of his war with the tempestuous Maria Callas, Impresario Bing tried to absolve his conductor and soothe his diva. Miss Dernesch, he explained, had merely been engaged as an understudy: "Even Madame Nilsson, as immortal as she is, can get sick occasionally." But since the Austrian soprano was coming all the way to New York, he added, she at least deserves the chance to give one performance in Von Karajan's critically acclaimed production of the Ring. From Vienna, the conductor supplied an obbligato of support to Bing's explanation...