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...difficult search. After more than a year of looking for a successor to the late George Szell, who died in July 1970 at 73, the Cleveland Orchestra last week chose 41-year-old Lorin Maazel. Endowed with stamina, sensitivity and intelligence, Maazel is a former child prodigy who at the age of eleven was guest conductor of Toscanini's NBC Symphony. One day, when he showed up to rehearse the NBC, he found all 100 or so musicians sucking lollipops. That might have finished any other child right then and there. Not Maazel. "I was a pretty tough...
...Lorin Hollander, D.MUS., pianist. As educators grappling with the problem of communicating with young minds, we are particularly impressed by your ability to tune in on-and to turn on -those under thirty...
...them his own). George Szell of the Cleveland Orchestra has agreed to take on the additional duty of music adviser to the Philharmonic. Next season he will share its podium with five younger guest conductors - all of them potential candidates to succeed Bernstein. They are America's Lorin Maazel, Hungary's Istvan Kertesz, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos of the National Orchestra of Spain, as well as two men who once served as Bernstein's assistants: Japan's Seiji Ozawa and Claudio Abbado of Milan's La Scala...
...most young people, classical music is a drag. Pianist Lorin Hollander, 24, thinks he knows why: "At a rock concert, the atmosphere is love. The rock groups talk their language. But at a classical concert, all they see is a guy in white tie and tails coming out very up tight on a platform. That's a plastic mannequin - society's little machine running up there. If live concerts are going to survive, the artists themselves are going to have to change...
Hollander is a former child prodigy who was lucky enough to have made a graceful leap into manhood. His father was assistant concertmaster of the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini. At age four, Lorin was given a violin. He smashed it. At 41, he was started on piano lessons. A few years later, when his daily practice routine had risen from two hours to seven, he sometimes wished that he had smashed the piano too. "Other kids got up in the morning, ate, went off to play," he recalls. "For me, it was slavery. I never had a holiday until...