Word: conductors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energy and unique approach." Georg Solti? "Fantastic dynamics. I seldom go to concerts, but you could not pay me to stay away when Solti comes to New York with the Chicago Symphony." More often, Goodman is a flinty patriarch who seems to live by his own view that the conductor is seen, but the timpanist is heard. Mengelberg? "Very quirky and picky. He would rearrange the orchestra when he guest-conducted and put the percussion all the way in front, and then complain that the brasses were too loud." Dimitri Mitropoulos? "He did some very exciting things...
When the retirement of Timpanist Saul Goodman was announced by the New York Philharmonic, Conductor Pierre Boulez gave him a watch. That was like giving Soprano Birgit Nilsson a pitch pipe. As head of the Philharmonic's percussion section, Goodman has been keeping time for the orchestra for 46 years. His rolls, ruffs and drags were as familiar and indispensable to Mengelberg and Toscanini in their day as to Bernstein and Boulez in theirs. Goodman's departure this week will terminate one of the longest tenures in the history of American symphonic life. As Philharmonic Snare Drummer "Buster...
...caused the music world's most con brio feud of the decade. Engaging in a bit of pre-publication drumbeating last spring, Libman disclosed that her book would challenge the familiar portrait of Stravinsky in his later years-a portrait produced by his literary collaborations with his co-conductor, aide and surrogate son Robert Craft (TIME, June...
...real Andre Previn, who has since recovered his stolen wallet, cites this story to illustrate his impact on music audiences since he became principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra four years ago. Previn is England's newest cottage industry, a musician in constant permutation-conductor-composer, composer-pianist, pianist-conductor-producing music in such unremitting abundance on television, recordings and in the concert halls that one expects any day to find him busking with mouth organ for the queues at the Palladium...
...Telephone Co. installed a total of 12,500 phones for press and delegates at the two conventions. The company made some money, but less than it would have by installing the same number of phones in private homes or offices. Southern Bell had to lay 423 million feet of conductor cable and set up 20 extra switchboards, all at its own expense...