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While an undergraduate at Dartmouth, I had the opportunity to stage manage Sir Georg Solti's Chicago Symphony Orchestra for three years in a row. On one occasion, Sir Georf and I talked at length about his style of conducting. He said that economics in movement was essential in the presentation of fine music. "Anything else," he said, "detracts from the concert and the music presented there...
...Rotel's Bavarian inventor, Georg Höltl, points out that his rigs enable vacationers to get to places that do not have hotels or even campsites. His Sahara trip from Tunisia to Nigeria, billed as "the most daring tourist program ever offered," is almost impossible to duplicate by private car. Conventional accommodations are expensive or nonexistent at most stopovers on Höltl's 7,000-mile Indian expedition or his 8,000-mile Peru-to-Patagonia haul. "We go to the interior, where the ordinary people live," says Jan Buchta, a veteran Rotel guide, who likes...
...influence on the singers' diction, gestures and all-round Wagnerian style. Where his touch left off, Conductor Henry Holt's picked up. The Vienna-born, Los Angeles-reared Holt, 41, has been the Seattle Opera's music director for nine years. His Wagner may lack Sir Georg Solti's dynamism. But it has warmth, coherence and authority...
...Fourth, a genial pastoral masterpiece, has a flowing line rarely matched in current interpretations and an intimacy that, comes close to Bruno Walter's incomparable recording of the 1940s. The formidable Chicago Symphony sounds somewhat more relaxed than it often does under its regular leader, Sir Georg Sold, but it plays every bit as attentively...
...week there was a surprising change: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring led the list. Though revolutionary when first performed in 1913, the work is now a cliché of concert programming; 28 stereo versions are currently available. It seems likely that ragtime fell not to Stravinsky but to Georg Solti, who leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Solti (TIME cover, May 7, 1973) has quietly become the most popular conductor since Toscanini. A Solti appearance is sold out at once anywhere in the world. His records are all top sellers; the Mahler: Symphony No. 5, released in 1970, has made...