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Last year she went off-Broadway to conduct a pair of musicals, and finally got her break two months ago when Conductor-Producer Greene decided to step down from Music Man's podium. So far, not a peep of complaint has been heard from her 24-piece orchestra. "You know," said one musician, "this is the first time I ever watched a conductor...
...Rheingold: Conductor Heinz Tiet-jen's fast time of two hours and 17 minutes set in 1934 has never been beaten. Slowest time for the distance: two hours and 42 minutes in 1951 by Hans Knap-pertsbusch, long regarded, but unclocked, as a relatively "slow" conductor...
Parsifal: Toscanini's swift handling contributed to his reputation as a fast conductor. His early record of two hours and six minutes for the first act, set in 1931, was finally broken in 1953 by Clemens Krauss, who raced to the finish in an astounding one hour and 30 minutes...
...Austrian Conductor Herbert von Karajan, 52, Europe's No. 1 man of many musical hats-and almost as many moods-is noted for having walked out on some of the best jobs in opera and symphony on the Continent. Last week he did it again. The post of artistic director of the famed Salzburg Festival was specially created for him four years ago. and he called it the achievement of a lifelong ambition. But Von Karajan has now refused to renew his contract...
After all, he has his other jobs to think about, too, such as his role as artistic director of the Vienna State Opera. Then there is the Vienna Philharmonic (conductor: Herbert von Karajan), which he plans to take on a three-week tour through...