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...spell and practically nobody came. The union got nervous about its musicians' pay, and on the fourth day, just as Benny Goodman was going on to tootle a clarinet version of Debussy's Rhapsody for Saxophone and Orchestra, the union called its men off the job. Dorati, who had sat up half the night studying Debussy's score on a plane from Chicago (he had flown out the night before to conduct in Chicago's Grant Park), took the bad news with a good nature rare among conductors in crises...
...Door. In his 42 years, Antal Dorati has faced many a crisis and weathered them all. After he graduated from the Budapest Conservatory, where he worked under both Bartók and Kodály (TIME, July 19), he began to conduct in provincial German towns in his early 20s. Once, when he assured the doorman at Miinster's opera house that he was its new director, the doorman laughed in the boy's face, refused to let him in until a city official arrived to identify him. His next big job-and the one that eventually brought...
...three years in Dallas, Dorati has become a kind of Hungarian Texan (and a U.S. citizen) who knows how to get along with Dallas businessmen. He is also a fine musician who has helped carry many a Texan the long distance from San Antonio Rose to Bartók "without going out of my way to annoy them." Dorati has given Dallas world premieres of works by Paul Hindemith, Walter Piston and George Antheil. Some Texans now brag almost as much about their symphony orchestras as about the size of their state...
Children on Stage. One way Dorati won Dallas over was to get his supporters young. He gives ten children's concerts a year, and lets talented kids sit in with the orchestra once a year. The first year, only four little fiddlers (one of whom made a puddle on the stage) could make the grade. Last year he had a stage full: 30 violinists, 17 cellists and one violist. He also trained a schoolkids' chorus to sing Kodaly's Psalmus Hungarians-in Hungarian...
...Dorati is as proud of Dallas ("a conductor's paradise") as the city is of him. Says he: "By now, I cannot cheat them musically even if I wanted...