Word: kubelik
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...blend of pathos and playfulness. Recently, Horenstein, 73, has begun recording regularly again with the London Symphony Orchestra and has now produced a lofty version of Mahler's hymn to nature that is more than a match for the honored interpretations by Leonard Bernstein, Erich Leinsdorf and Rafael Kubelik...
...that seems to be changing. In the same week that retiring General Manager Rudolf Bing was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, his chosen successor Goeran Gentele (TIME, Dec. 21, 1970) announced that Conductor Rafael Kubelik would join him at the Met (in 1973-74) as the first music director in the company's 88-year history. Both the job and the man are sure to have a great effect on the Met's future. The new music director will have an equal voice in every phase of the Met's artistic operations...
...Kubelik was born in 1914 near Prague. He first caught the public eye as piano accompanist for his father Jan Kubelik, the noted Czech violinist, but he comes to his present job after international success as a guest conductor and a long career as a music director of the Czech Philharmonic, the Brno Opera House, Britain's Royal Opera House at Covent Garden and, most recently, the Bavarian Radio Symphony in Munich...
...Kubelik's many Deutsche Grammophon recordings (notably Janacek and Mahler) show, he has brought the Bavarian orchestra to unprecedented polish by combining a Bohemian exuberance with the best kind of Germanic restraint and architectural proportion. Both should be most useful...
...work has been kept alive over the years by a handful of conductors such as Rafael Kubelik of Munich's Radio Orchestra and Charles Mackerras of London's Sadler's Wells Opera. Another devoted fan is Walter Susskind of the St. Louis Symphony, who remembers Janáček from his student days in Prague. He compares Janáček's originality with that of America's Charles Ives. Like Ives, Janacek was a weird, lonely figure who owed little to his musical ancestors and had no true descendants. His method of composing...