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Other honoraries include Williard Van Orman Quine, Pierce Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, and Sir Goerg Solti, conductor and musical director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra...
Although Harvard officials will not confirm published reports, Georg Solti, music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, will also take home an honorary...
...conceived theories about unity of drama and music, based on very frail analogy to classical Greek tragedy, now find few admirers, especially since he himself failed to apply them carefully. And the music is much less well-served by this recording sonically and artistically than by Georg Solti's classic 1964 Decca set. If there is a need for Wagner in translation, it is in the theater, not on record...
Bergen proved to be no Solti on the podium-she gave few entrance or dynam ic cues-but she kept the symphony marching along smartly to her emphatic beat through the Brahms and Schumann program. It was good, solid music, capped with a rousing run through a Brahms' Hungarian Dance that had the audience clapping along in approval. Said one musician: "She does amazingly well at get ting the continuity and the overall interpretation right...
Chicago Symphony Conductor Sir Georg Solti slipped as he stepped out of an elevator, and his assistant fell into a heroine's role. With Solti bedridden after straining a ligament in his back, Symphony Chorus Director Margaret Hillis, 56, was tapped as a last-minute stand-in to conduct a Manhattan performance of Mahler's difficult Eighth Symphony. Hillis spent an hour with the ailing maestro going over the score, listened to a radio tape of an earlier performance, and with just two days' preparation stepped up to the conductor's podium in Carnegie Hall...