Word: munch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late at night, eat crackers and cheese, drink beer and watch on TV those old movies about composers! Cornel Wilde as Chopin murmuring sweet note-things to Merle Oberon as George Sand in A Song to Remember. How (munch) romantic! Dirk Bogarde as Liszt tirelessly flailing away at the old 88 in Song Without End. Good (crunch) show...
Morale at the orchestra was at its lowest in recent memory when Leinsdorf departed, and the BSO, which had been one of the international greats under Koussevitsky and Munch, was trailing each of the other four major American orchestras in record sales. When RCA Victor picked up the contract for Ormandy and the Philadelphia, there were rumors that the company would phase out Boston, because of the lack of magnetism in Leinsdorf's conducting. Leinsdorf was criticized as being excessively Germanic in interpretation, and at least one orchestra member publicly stated that he would rather be conducted by a metronome...
Hopefully, a proper selection of new people will restore the "Boston sound" which existed under Koussevitsky and even came through in the sometimes sloppy conducting of Munch. Then, for the first time in almost a decade, Boston won't have to lay claim to the dubious distinction of having Arthur Fiedler as its greatest resident conductor...