Word: solti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appears that Maestro Solti in stabbing himself with his baton is perpetuating a tradition. It began with Jean Baptiste Lully, who, as an early ensemble conductor, clobbered his toe with the large cane he used to gesture toward his 24 violins. He died of resultant blood poisoning...
Tribute to Maestro Solti...
...Your article on Conductor Georg Solti [May 7] and the Chicago Symphony was just right. It was a romantic piece for a romantic orchestra...
...TIME'S hymn of praise to Sir Georg Solti is in effect a rhapsodic tribute to the Chicago Symphony and to its master builder, Fritz Reiner. When Reiner arrived in Chicago in the early 1950s, the orchestra that had been shaped so nobly by Frederick ("Papa") Stock had fallen on hard times. Maestro Reiner changed all that. Reiner's method centered on perfectionism, brought out with elan and excitement, yet with an economy of baton flicking, writhing, bouncing or grimacing...
TIME'S Music Critic William Bender, who wrote the cover story on Sir Georg Solti, here turns to other conductors and gives his considered, though to some perhaps arbitrary, ranking of U.S. orchestras...