Word: leinsdorf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kind of feeling that words could hardly frame. At Boston's Symphony Hall, Conductor Erich Leinsdorf laid down his baton, raised it again for the funeral march from the Eroica. On a Washington street corner, a blind Negro woman plucked at the strings of her guitar, half-singing, half-weeping a dirge: "He promised never to leave...
...home in the acoustically excellent Symphony Hall and a bucolic summer retreat at Tanglewood, in the Berkshires. A11 this would not be worth much, though, if the orchestra did not play so consistently well: under music directors as disparate in taste and talents as Serge Koussevitzky, Charles Munch, Erich Leinsdorf and, now, Seiji Ozawa, 47, it has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to adapt to almost any type of music conductorial style. Boston's full strings, warm winds and elegant brass are always in bloom...
...spirited mistress and later the wife of Publisher and Oilman Charles Marsh. Their affair began in 1938, after Alice, then 26, met the tall, jug-eared Congressman, then 29, during a party at Longlea, her regal Virginia estate. He arranged a visa extension at her request for Conductor Erich Leinsdorf, an Austrian Jew fleeing the Nazis. The relationship continued until the 1960s, when Alice grew angry at L.B.J.'s conduct of the Viet...
David Zinman, 45, of the Rochester Philharmonic. In eight years, Zinman has taken a demoralized, undermanned ensemble and turned it into an orchestra that plays better today than it did in its glory days under Erich Leinsdorf in the '50s. Zinman's strengths are a buoyant sense of rhythm and a flair for orchestral color, which make his Mahler performances hard-driving and vivid. Zinman is the oldest of the group, and his increasing musical maturity makes him a front runner for a top post. But, in the recesses of upstate New York, he may be marooned...