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While an undergraduate at Dartmouth, I had the opportunity to stage manage Sir Georg Solti's Chicago Symphony Orchestra for three years in a row. On one occasion, Sir Georf and I talked at length about his style of conducting. He said that economics in movement was essential in the presentation of fine music. "Anything else," he said, "detracts from the concert and the music presented there...
...singers' diction, gestures and all-round Wagnerian style. Where his touch left off, Conductor Henry Holt's picked up. The Vienna-born, Los Angeles-reared Holt, 41, has been the Seattle Opera's music director for nine years. His Wagner may lack Sir Georg Solti's dynamism. But it has warmth, coherence and authority...
...there was a surprising change: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring led the list. Though revolutionary when first performed in 1913, the work is now a cliché of concert programming; 28 stereo versions are currently available. It seems likely that ragtime fell not to Stravinsky but to Georg Solti, who leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Solti (TIME cover, May 7, 1973) has quietly become the most popular conductor since Toscanini. A Solti appearance is sold out at once anywhere in the world. His records are all top sellers; the Mahler: Symphony No. 5, released in 1970, has made...
...Georg Solti is playing my Variations for Orchestra with the Chicago Symphony. He decides to invite me, all expenses paid, to attend the concert. When does the telegram arrive? On the day of the concert. He is in Chicago; I am in New York, with classes to teach. What...
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti conducting; London, $6.98). Solti's way with Berlioz, Wagner, Mahler and Strauss stamps him as a Romantic and post-Romantic conductor without superior. This megatonic Rite now confirms his mastery of the contemporary idiom. Where Pierre Boulez etches in cold objectivity, Solti paints in swirling shapes and colors. The effect is electrifying...