Word: leinsdorf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inside, she regained her composure. Symphony Conductor Erich Leinsdorf gallantly kissed her hand as she entered, and she chatted comfortably at the dinner table with him and Henry Cabot, board president of the symphony. Amid the dimly lit candelabra and the red-globed lamps of the Edwardian decor, sweating photographers dashed about popping dozens of flashbulbs at her, occasionally overturning chairs and breaking wine glasses. The guests-from Boston grandes dames to college boys-gaped openly at Jackie, but she seemed unperturbed. Dinner was surprisingly good for such an affair: lobster, veal, braised endive and soufflé glacé. Jackie...
...from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess got rousing cheers, despite complaints next day from critics over the absence of works by living American composers. There were plenty of living celebrities at the reception that followed: Marian Anderson, Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Paul Horgan, Peter Kurd, Jasper Johns, Erich Leinsdorf, Robert Lowell, Gian Carlo Menotti, Anna Moffo, Mark Rothko, W. D. Snodgrass, Edward Steichen, Richard Wilbur, Herman Wouk and Minoru Yamasaki...
BEETHOVEN: CONCERTO NO. 5 (RCA Victor). The exuberant Artur Rubinstein and the Boston Symphony's meticulous Erich Leinsdorf bow in each other's musical direction in a performance of the lordly "Emperor" Concerto that is both polished and grand...
BRAHMS: FIRST PIANO CONCERTO (RCA Victor). Van Cliburn digs into the technically difficult passages and plays them eloquently, but when there is nothing to display but the music itself, he has much less to say. With Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony...
ORCHESTRAL: A triumphant beginning to the Boston Symphony Prokofiev series is the big, wartime Fifth Symphony, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf. Leonard Bernstein fired up the New York Philharmonic for Liszt's Faust Symphony and cooled them down for a lapidary performance of Haydn's Symphonies 82 and 83 (Columbia). Haydn (in Symphonies 95 and 101) also got the benefit of Fritz Reiner's accumulated wisdom and inborn precision in his last recording, made two months before his death (RCA Victor...