Word: martinon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...known as a conductor's Waterloo. No wonder. Artur Rodzinski lasted exactly one year before the dissatisfied trustees ousted him. Rafael Kubelik was hounded out of the job by Claudia Cassidy, the relentlessly hostile-toward Kubelik, at any rate- but now retired critic of the Chicago Tribune. Jean Martinon quit last year after a series of disputes that culminated in a clash with his musicians over discipline. The only recent conductor to succeed in the job was the late Fritz Reiner, a Hungarian with Germanic musical tastes, who brilliantly led the ensemble from 1953 to 1962 before illness forced...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Sounds and Sights of Chicago": a musical tour of the Windy City with Conductor Jean Martinon and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Junior Wells and his Chicago Blues Band, Ralph Shapey and the Contemporary Chamber Players, Folk Singer Jo Mapes and the Chicago Lyric Opera Ballet...
RAVEL: DAPHNIS AND CHLOË, SUITE NO. 2, and ROUSSEL: BACCHUS AND ARIADNE, SUITE NO. 2 (RCA Victor). For his first recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, new Conductor Jean Martinon chose flashy and familiar works-two Dionysian ballets by fellow Frenchmen. Orchestra and conductor show up well, from the airy pianissimos that signal the break of day in the Ravel to the wildly pounding bacchanalia that climax the Roussel...
...period of transition that could last another three or four years until things settle down. Before his resignation last spring, Fritz Reiner, 74, built the Chicago into one of the best-disciplined orchestras in the world. Chicago's new man, who will arrive next season, is Jean Martinon, 53, a composer and conductor and presently the General Music Director in Düsseldorf. Martinon, a Frenchman, will inherit the most Germanic orchestra outside Germany...