Word: szell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LUCERNE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL (Aug. 13-Sept. 7). Good music, beautifully performed by topnotch artists, has always been Lucerne's strength. This year, the conductors include George Szell, Herbert von Karajan, William Steinberg and Istvan Kertesz. Two husband-and-wife teams-Chris-ta Ludwig and Walter Berry, Jacqueline Du Pré and Daniel Barenboim-will be heard in joint recitals. Among other soloists: Flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal, Pianist Geza Anda, Violinist Zino Francescatti, Cellist Pierre Fournier...
...orchestra is about to tap its endowment fund for $600,000 to help meet a 1968-69 deficit of $1,100,000. If the same thing happens next year, says Orchestra President Alfred M. Rankin, the endowment fund will be wiped out, and the orchestra built by George Szell over the past 23 years into one of the world's finest may have to disband or go into bankruptcy...
...orchestra almost as much of a national as a New York institution. Although Bernstein's reputation as a champion of new music is a trifle inflated, he gave the U.S. and world premiere of 42 works, including 26 pieces by American composers (one of them his own). George Szell of the Cleveland Orchestra has agreed to take on the additional duty of music adviser to the Philharmonic. Next season he will share its podium with five younger guest conductors - all of them potential candidates to succeed Bernstein. They are America's Lorin Maazel, Hungary's Istvan Kertesz...
Royalties and Pops. Nonetheless, the orchestra itself has reason to be content with its new lot. Royalties are coming in from both companies. In addition, Ormandy can now record material that was closed to him at Columbia, because Mahler belonged largely to Bernstein, and Mozart to Szell. To be released in the fall are Philadelphia versions of the Mahler First Symphony and Mendelssohn's Elijah. After that will come DeFalla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain with Rubinstein, Mahler's Second Symphony, Bach's St. Matthew Passion, and several contemporary works, including Krzystof Penderecki...
...KNABEN WUNDERHORN, ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF, DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU, GEORGE SZELL CONDUCTING THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Angel). Though not a happy composer, Mahler could be light-hearted when he turned to folk poetry. In these twelve songs-drawn from the German folk anthology The Youth's Magic Horn-he conjures up an impish world of humorous saints, sorrowful drummer boys, cuckoos and nightingales. As one would expect from such a line-up of talent, this version abounds with interpretive delights. It does not, however, outclass Angel's previous recording by Janet Baker, Geraint Evans and Conductor Wyn Morris with...