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- Sep. 27, 1993: Died:Erich Leinsdorf
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Sep. 27, 1993 Attack Of The Video Games
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 22
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- <p> DIED. ERICH LEINSDORF, 81, orchestra conductor; in Zurich. "Great
- composers knew what they wanted," insisted Leinsdorf in a 1981
- book on conducting. But he added this seemingly contradictory
- advice to would-be conductors: "Music must be read with knowledge
- and imagination -- without necessarily believing every note
- and word that is printed." It was perhaps just that paradoxical
- combination of regard for the text with fresh thinking that
- made Leinsdorf a world-class conductor and vaulted him to his
- legendary leadership of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the
- 1960s. Born in Vienna, Leinsdorf was a rising young conductor
- when his career in Austria was thwarted by Nazi-fueled anti-Semitism
- in the 1930s -- but not before Arturo Toscanini discovered his
- talents and recommended him to New York's Metropolitan Opera.
- The brutally demanding conductor went on to lead and record
- with some of the world's great ensembles.
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