George Szell

Michael Charry, whose new biography of his mentor, George Szell, also comes out in the spring, told countless stories about giants like Szell and Pierre Monteux.

Laurence Vittes: Have Baton, Will Travel: Classical Music Combine in New Orleans Laurence Vittes 2011

The late composer Milton Babbitt remembered him as a geeky Jewish kid from Cincinnati, raised in the irascible certainties of George Szell, whose assistant he was for six years at the crack Cleveland Orchestra.

The Met's Rock of Ages Norman Lebrecht 2011

Michael Charry, whose new biography of his mentor, George Szell, also comes out in the spring, told countless stories about giants like Szell and Pierre Monteux.

Laurence Vittes: Have Baton, Will Travel: Classical Music Combine in New Orleans Laurence Vittes 2011

In "George Szell: A Life of Music," Michael Charry tells how the razor-tongued conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, whose taste ran to the 18th- and 19th-century classics, decided one season to program Mr. Thomson's "Louisiana Story."

How Two Great Critics Compromised Their Posthumous Reputations Terry Teachout 2011

All the while, he harbored the hope that one day he would sit down at the keyboard, his fingers would uncurl, and he would once again be able to play the two-handed German repertory by Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms, which, for Fleisher, a five-year student of the legendary Artur Schnabel and a "musical son" of the revered conductor George Szell, constitutes the crown jewels of piano literature.

A symphonic life, played with one hand By Mindy Aloff 2010

In 1966, Fleisher was at the height of his powers - world famous and busy on a project to record every major work for piano and orchestra with the great conductor George Szell.

Glory, Drama Mark Path of Piano Virtuoso 2010

Music directors reign as autocratic tyrants -- George Szell struck fear into musicians 'hearts as he shaped the Cleveland Orchestra into a world-class ensemble in the 1950s and' 60s -- or lead as first among equals, like the more democratic Simon Rattle at the Berlin Philharmonic.

Can Christoph Eschenbach and the National Symphony Orchestra give each other a fresh start? 2010

In 1966, Fleisher was at the height of his powers - world famous and busy on a project to record every major work for piano and orchestra with the great conductor George Szell.

Glory, Drama Mark Path of Piano Virtuoso 2010

In 1966, Fleisher was at the height of his powers - world famous and busy on a project to record every major work for piano and orchestra with the great conductor George Szell.

Glory, Drama Mark Path of Piano Virtuoso 2010

All the while, he harbored the hope that one day he would sit down at the keyboard, his fingers would uncurl, and he would once again be able to play the two-handed German repertory by Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms, which, for Fleisher, a five-year student of the legendary Artur Schnabel and a "musical son" of the revered conductor George Szell, constitutes the crown jewels of piano literature.

A symphonic life, played with one hand By Mindy Aloff 2010