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...GOOD CONDUCTOR is hard to find, harder than ever after the deaths of Sir John Barbirolli and George Szell. One place to find a good conductor, though, is in the Harvard Music Department. His name is Leon Kirchner, and, although his conducting experience is not that of a Barbirolli or a Szell, he and his orchestra compare favorably with Boston's other resident symphony...
...Complete Symphonies (7 disks; Vol. II, Symphonies 25-41; $31.50; Deutsche Grammophon). Sleek and occasionally lacking in subtlety, Böhm's second half of the complete Mozart symphonies (the rest are scheduled for release in May) can be bettered on individual recordings by conductors like Szell, Davis or Walter. But apart from Böhm, the only first-rank conductor to produce a marathon Mozart is Erich Leinsdorf, whose performance of the symphonies (Westminster, 1967) is badly handicapped by a brassy, unresonant recording. By contrast DGG's sound is sumptuous. Though Böhm's conducting...
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...