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...Solti's absence, and without consulting him, the Philharmonic board had named young Indian Conductor Zubin Mehta "a conductor" for a yearly eight-week stretch. Because Mehta is busy elsewhere (as head of the Montreal Symphony), Solti suggested that he only be a guest conductor, and for a short period, to leave more time for other guests. What was at stake, argued Solti, was not merely a few weeks more or less of Mehta's conducting stints, but whether Solti himself was to be boss of his own orchestra. The music critic of the rival Examiner was delighted...
...exchanges.'' Her notable contributions to culture have been the saving of the Hollywood Bowl through a vigorous fund-raising campaign in 1951 and the launching of the new music center. Her detractors accuse her of ignoring better-informed musical opinion than her own and of alienating, before Solti, such talented musicians as Eduard van Beinum and Alfred Wallenstein...
...situation," said Solti, "is grotesque." Buffie said nothing, standing on the dignity of the title that her Symphony Association had conferred on her: California's "first citizen of music...
...replacement for the late Eduard van Beinum, the Los Angeles Philharmonic announced the appointment of Hungarian-born Georg Solti, 47, now musical director of the excellent Frankfurt Opera. Solti has guest-conducted most major U.S. orchestras, built a reputation in Europe as a fine interpreter of Mozart and Wagner, next season will make his debut at the Metropolitan Opera conducting a revival of Tannhäuser. But his main enthusiasm, he has said, is symphonic conducting, particularly in the U.S. Says he: "This is the country of the future. And it has a growing music tradition. I like something that...
...garish circus scene throughout the opera, changes scenes merely by changing the props. In the Paris sequence, Otto projects Lulu's progress on a huge screen, in drawings recalling Toulouse-Lautrec; the last one shows Lulu standing naked with black handprints all over her body. Conductor Georg Solti leads his cast and huge orchestra with deft skill, and at each performance Soprano Helga Pilarczyk scores triumphs in the fiendishly difficult title role...