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Instead of hiring another world-famed maestro to take Bodanzky's place, General Manager Johnson picked a talented, 27-year-old stripling named Erich Leinsdorf, who had been brought from Austria in 1937 as Bodanzky's assistant. Though Manhattan critics admitted that Leinsdorf was not bad for a beginner they com plained that the Met was no place for a beginner. There were rumors that the Met's stars liked Mr. Leinsdorf no better than the critics did. The pot simmered. Last week the lid blew...
...Toscanini can be said to have any proteges, they are Erich Leinsdorf, newest of the Metropolitan Opera's conductors, and Hans Steinberg. An exile from Nazi Germany, Steinberg was conducting the Palestine Symphony when Toscanini visited there in 1936. So delighted was Toscanini with Steinberg's preliminary groundwork for his concerts that he chose him as his assistant in preparing for the NBC broadcasts...
...conductor: 27-year-old German-born Erich Leinsdorf, promoted from the ranks of the assistant conductors where he made several sensational appearances last year...