Wednesday, January 04, 2006

In this month's The Gramophone magazine.


There's a good article in this month's issue of The Gramophone about George Szell, the much esteemed hungarian conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra known for his often unreasonable demands of players and management, and as a consequence the enemies that he made. Richard Osborne, the writer of the article tells of a remark made by Rudolf Bing, the General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York: "Szell is his own worst enemy," said a sympathiser. "Not while I'm alive!" replied Bing.

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