Word: swoboda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry Swoboda, the new conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, greets you, he shoots out his baton hand with disarming speed. The gesture lacks the pointless effusiveness one so often encounters. Swoboda is disarming in other ways as well. After launching into a musical idea with open feeling, he immediately backtracks by demanding "Do you see what I mean...
...Swoboda refuses to be polemical about his ideas. "I am not for a system as a system," he says regarding contemporary music. Swoboda thinks that the exact direction modern music is now following is a very open question. Another example of his undogmatic approach is his feeling that American music's private enterprise "system" may work out its future comfortably without the (excellent) European subsidy "system...
...Swoboda grew up in Czechoslavakia, and as Kodaly's Hary Janos Suite's presence on his first program indicates, he feels part of old Austria's heritage. After attending the Music Conservatory in Prague, he took a Ph.D. at the University there and became assistant conductor at the Prague Opera. He then became conductor and program director for the Prague broadcasting station. Guest conducting took him to Edinburgh, Berlin, Dresden, and Vienna...
...Swoboda has been appointed as conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Swoboda is known for his recordings with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and has also performed the Berlin Philharmonic and the Philharmonic Orchestra of London...