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Some matters were painstakingly negotiated. Nader Lieutenant David Leinsdorf, a 28-year-old former antitrust-trial assistant in the Justice Department, originally asked to interview no fewer than 750 Citibank officials and employees; the list was finally arbitrated to 53. Each interview was taped and conducted in the presence of a senior bank officer, an attorney and a public relations man-a team that usually outnumbered the two or three student interviewers...
...company staged productions of Tristan, Ballo in Maschera and an Ingmar Bergman-directed Rake's Progress to excellent critical acclaim. In the guessing game that followed Bing's decision to retire, Gentele's name did not figure among the popular favorites: Conductors Leonard Bernstein and Erich Leinsdorf, Impresarios Julius Rudel of the New York City Opera and Hamburg's Rolf Liebermann and Composer Peter Mennin, the president of Juilliard. "I didn't even know myself until three weeks ago that I was being considered seriously," says Gentele...
...style. The recordings which he made with the Halle during his decades of association with it are some of the finest in the literature. The Mahler First Symphony which he did with them for Vanguard is a definitive version, a masterpiece which puts to shame such recordings as the Leinsdorf version with the Boston Symphony, or Ormandy's frivolous attempt to incorporate the Blumine Movement into the work. His recordings of Mahler and Vaughan are all first rate, and many of them are the generally accepted standard versions. Yet, for all the accomplishments of Barbirolli later life, American critics seem...
...that have gotten into the orchestra in the past decade. Rudolf has a brilliant sense of pace and timing, and it displayed itself in this work. He skillfully constructed a great performance by avoiding most of the characteristic failings of his contemporaries. He never forced his pace, the way Leinsdorf did. He made the orchestra forget the influence of his predecessor, and got it to produce a clarity of tone, especially in the strings, which Bernstein might well have envied. The concert definitely belonged to Rudolf and the listener went away feeling that the aging conductor had made...
...Richard Lewis, and Thomas Paul-integrated with the orchestra, and he didn't. The first three movements were unsatisfactory, glossing over all the nuances of score which distinguish this work, and filled with muddy playing. The choral movement failed for lack of rehearal. The BSO recorded the Ninth with Leinsdorf only last year, and it was clearly influenced by this experience. If only he had been given an extra week of work, Bernstein could probably have produced a memorable performance. The fact that he didn't can be traced to the basic fault of this Beethoven Festival: the incredibly stupid...