Word: szell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announced that he would abdicate at the end of his 25 years of autocratic rule (TIME, April 19, 1948), they had been discussing heirs more apparent-31-year-old Koussevitzky Protege Leonard Bernstein, the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's part-time Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, Cleveland's George Szell...
Schumann: Symphony No. 4 (the Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). One of Schumann's most listenable works. Conductor Szell's performance is fine, but it comes off records with a feeling of tightness...
...Among the recipients: Arturo Toscanini, Serge Koussevitzky, Leopold Stokowski, Bruno Walter, George Szell, Eduard van Beinum in Amsterdam, Sir Thomas Beecham in London, Pierre's son Jean Monteux in Paris...
Mozart: Symphony No. 39, K. 543 (Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Conductor Szell rides one of Mozart's finest and most spirited blue bloods with too tight a rein. Recording: good...
...long wanted to bring Richard Strauss's Salome back to its boards. But since its last performance five years ago, with George Szell in the pit, and Soprano Lily D janel swirling Salome's seven veils, the Met had been unable to get the right conductor-singer team together to do it again, and do it well. And with New York's upstart City Opera Company getting bravos for its lively, scaled-down production (TIME, Dec. 13), the Met knew that if it revived Salome at all, it would have to be mighty good...