Word: leinsdorfs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orchestra loved it, and so did Leinsdorf. "I was very anxious about the whole thing, really, but it turned out delightfully," he said later in his dressing room. "It was more like mapping out a campaign than conducting an orchestra...
...great outdoors does things to people. Stuffy board chairmen, foggy professors, bleary barflies are all likely to step out of character under a wide and starry sky. Musicians, too. On the podium of Boston's austere Symphony Hall, Conductor Erich Leinsdorf, for instance, is as musically adventurous as a metronome. But amid the shadowed lawns and towering pinewoods of Tanglewood at Lenox, Mass., where the Berkshire Music Festival has been held for 27 summers, Leinsdorf the precisionist gives way to a gay experimenter...
...stage; Four ended up nearly out of sight under a canopy normally used by the audience to walk from the parking lot to the shed. Four's conductor, English Horn Player Louis Speyer, had a closed-circuit TV screen in front of him to show him Conductor Leinsdorf, and earphones, which gave him the beat of the other orchestras...
...This did not work in Tangle-wood's 6,000-seat arena. The problem was finally solved by beefing up Orchestra One to 26 pieces, giving Two 15, Three 9, and Four 13. All strings were muted in Four, three-quarters of them in Three, half in Two. Leinsdorf's orchestra played full strength...
PROKOFIEV: SYMPHONY NO. 5 (Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony; RCA Victor). Only a conductor with the sophistication and logic of Leinsdorf can keep rein on the tugging emotional and intellectual strands of Prokofiev's greatest symphony. The first and third movements are deeply felt, but never betrayed by theatrical effects; the second and fourth are lively and lyrical in turn, but edged with sudden ominous outcroppings...