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Ever since Conductor Charles Munch died last November, the French Ministry of Culture has been searching for a worthy successor to lead the prestigious Orchestre de Paris. Tradition demands a Frenchman. But quality has now decreed an Austrian: Herbert von Karajan, 60, who is already busy enough as conductor of Salzburg Festivals and the music director of the Berlin Philharmonic. In Paris, the indefatigable maestro will double as music director and conductor, lead the Orchestre in a series of concerts at home, plus several festival appearances and tours of Japan and the U.S. Says he: "I consider the Orchestre...
LUCERNE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL (Aug. 14-Sept. 8) is long on notable artists (Artur Rubinstein, Herbert von Karajan, William Steinberg, Isaac Stern) and short on program ideas. Still, the air is crisp and the execution usually exemplary at the picturesque lakeside resort...
SALZBURG (July 26-Aug. 30). The usual heavy dose of Mozart, seasoned with the three Bs, and occasionally spiced with early 20th century compositions is the diet prepared by such expert chefs as the Vienna Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan, the Berlin Philharmonic under George Szell, and star soloists...
...that isn't daunting enough, a glance back over the record of previous directors would sober the most sanguine candidate. In 1964, Herbert von Karajan quit in a huff over "bureaucratic interference." Karl Boehm was virtually booed out of the job in 1956. The strain of it all gave Herbert Strohm a nervous breakdown in 1941. As fine a conductor as Felix Weingartner lasted only 20 months in 1935-36-and that was his second fling at the job. Even the demonic Gustav Mahler, who gave the house a decade of discipline and creativity from 1897 to 1907, left...
Actually, cassette recorders have been in use for several years as dictating tools for executives, actors, doctors and language instructors. Today they are widely used in the music world as well. Conductor Herbert von Karajan saved rehearsal time for last year's Salzburg Festival production of Die Walküre by having the singers study cassettes made from his earlier recording of the opera. Mezzo-Soprano Regina Resnik taped a recording of Adriana Lecouvreur on her cassette and is now using it to learn the role she will sing next season...