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...around for a conductor to save their troubled orchestra in 1968, they threw out all the stereotypes and selected a man who looked, according to one Chicago musician, like a "tennis player or shortstop or golfer" on the podium. He was also bald and aging. Looks aside, Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony were made for each other Together they are producing some of the world's most exciting music...
...relatively brief span of four seasons, Solti (pronounced Sholtee) has brought the Chicago back to the preeminence of its days under Fritz Reiner (1953-1963) The Solti sound, not the sound of trouble, is the talk of the music world. Indeed there has not been such excitement about a marriage of conductor and orchestra in the U.S. since the golden days of the 1930s when Toscanini led the New York Philharmonic, Stokowski the Philadelphia and Koussevitzky the Boston. In recent years, only George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra have approached the august virtuosity, combustible power and quartet-like intimacy that...
Hosannas. Until his arrival the Chicago, heavy with German tradition, was known as a great orchestra that only rarely gave a great performance. Now it is an ensemble that Solti can (as he did two seasons ago) take into such musical bastions as Vienna, Berlin and Hamburg, and win standing ovations from the public and hosannas from the stuffiest critics. The money for that European tour was raised largely by Symphony Board Chairman Louis Sudler, as part of a campaign to publicize the board's selection of Solti. That choice was made, says Sudler, a Chicago realtor...
Like Beethoven, Mahler and other musical visionaries, Carter is convinced that time will tell well. Only in the past season or two, for example, has he begun to hear performances (by Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Sympho ny) of his 17-year-old Variations for Orchestra that have pleased him - and audiences. By rights, the String Quartet No. 3 should not have to wait that long...
MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 8 (London, 2 LPs). Conductor Georg Solti triumphs in a work that, in emotional scope and array of forces, is a most difficult challenge to recording...