Word: conductorless
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...Musici goes conductorless by choice, does not even admit the existence of a first violinist because it wishes to reproduce as precisely as possible the organization of early Italian orchestras. The musicians interrupt their rehearsals when any one of them feels that another has made a mistake. Because the leaderless method could cause endless bickering, I Musici picks its players for personality as well as technique, spends weeks studying the best soloists in Italy before naming a replacement...
...cert guest stint with the Houston Symphony. Word leaked out that Houston, which was in the market for a permanent conductor (TIME, Feb. 7), made Katims an offer-$30,000 a year, far more than he gets in Seattle (about $18,000). Seattle prepared itself to be conductorless once more...
...Conductorless ever since Fritz Reiner's angry resignation (TIME, March 8), Pittsburgh's Symphony Society had been borrowing any top conductors it could lay hands on to lead the orchestra, if only for a few concerts. There was one man in particular they wanted, and last week, when La Scala Milan's famed Victor de Sabata appeared for the first of four guest spots, Pittsburgh decided that a few brassy fanfares were called for. All of Manhattan's first-string critics were invited, and they accepted...
That his job is not lightly to be dispensed with was shown nine years ago. Following a precedent set by tradition-busting Muscovites,* Manhattan musicians formed a "Conductorless Orchestra" and gave a series of Carnegie Hall concerts. They managed to keep time with each other, played as well as some orchestras do under some conductors. But the electric fusion of tone that would have been brought forth by a Toscanini, a Stokowski or a Furtwangler was completely lacking. Financially the venture was a dismal flop...
...Moscow's "Persimphans," a conductorless orchestra organized in 1922, gave 90 concerts during its first two years, was praised by Composers Glazounov and Milhaud...