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...fracture that disabled the 72-year-old Steinberg but sudden fatigue. Thomas, not yet 25, was standing in the wings when the maestro walked offstage just before the intermission and told his assistant to get out there and finish the concert. Thomas proceeded to take the orchestra through a Starer concerto and Till Eulenspiegel without a slip, and the critics flipped. By 1972 he was the Boston's principal guest conductor and had his own orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic...
...Mozart's Symphony No. 28 have all been marred by Ozawa's ponderous interpretations. Ozawa's depth has long been questioned, and he is generally much more successful with the romantic warhorses or even modern pieces-as he was with the world premiere of Robert Starer's lean but melodic Violin Concerto and Tchaikovsky's noisy Francesca da Rimini-than he is with the classical repertory...
Boston Symphony Orchestra--Seiji Ozawa, conductor; Itzhak Periman, violin soloist; music of Mozart, Starer, Saint-Saens and Tchalkovsky; Symphony Hall...
...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...