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...been around to play for the stereo age. They are hi-fi's first completely successful encounter with a golden age of the piano, and they come with towering endorsements from the old masters (praising the piano rolls) and from such acute modern listeners as Glenn Gould, George Szell and Leopold Stokowski (praising the records...
...Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs, and Glenn G. Wolfe, director of the State Department's Cultural Presentations Office. Broad policy decisions are now made by an expert Advisory Committee on the Arts under Larsen's chairmanship; it includes such people as Cleveland Orchestra Conductor George Szell, Juilliard President Peter Mennin, Producer and Director George Seaton, Alley Theatre Director Nina Vance, Sculptor Theodore Roszak, and Manhattan School of Music President John Brownlee. Panels of experts make the artistic choices and the State Department settles for arranging the tours...
TIME deserves much credit for giving public recognition to the greatest orchestra and the greatest conductor in America: the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra and George Szell...
...member of The New York Philharmonic, and after one rehearsal with Szell, who was guest-conducting at the time, I knew I had to work with him some day. When, two years later, Szell asked me to leave the Met, which I had subsequently joined, to come to Cleveland, I jumped at the chance, even though I loved New York almost as much as I loved music. For to be in on the metamorphosis of a provincial orchestra into the world's greatest (and some of us knew that this would happen with Szell at the helm...
...with budgets of around $2,000,000 each, earn more than 80% of their costs, but the Cleveland, which spends $500,000 a year less, earns only 47%. All look very much the same, though the Cleveland's violas sit where the New York has its cellos, and Szell uses one more trombone and one less horn than Erich Leinsdorf does in Boston. The Boston has the greatest number of foreign-born musicians with 33, the Philadelphia the fewest with 15. Other distinctions...