Word: starer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mehta was chosen as long-range music advisor of the orchestra, and he hoped to modernize the repertory. This season Mehta sandwiched a few more or less contemporary works in with the normal rich diet of Haydn, Beethoven and Brahms. A Bartok violin concerto, a Hindemith symphonic piece, Robert Starer's Samson Agonistes and a piano concerto by Alberto Ginastera all appeared on the programs. Mehta even worked in Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1, though its jagged musical qualities are rather daring by Israeli standards. The players were happy to get away from the old warhorses...
...last October when William Steinberg, music director of the Boston Symphony, fell ill midway through a visiting concert, also at Philharmonic Hall. Thomas, the orchestra's new assistant conductor and Steinberg's understudy, took over after intermission and handled Strauss's familiar Till Eulenspiegel and Robert Starer's new Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra with ease, poise and cool. Said the New York Times next day: "Mr. Thomas knows his business, and we shall be hearing from him again...