European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Erich Reinsdorf coaching orchestras at age 75 by Mary Campbell associated press Erich . Still conducting and a caving i Toril a music Al ago 75.compares his Piole Sion a sport scotch Whin Leins doll stepped before the Nea f of philharmonic on Jan �1 or the Fust of Liv concerts of i 111? sctiw1he marked the 50lh anniversary of Hin american Unhul As a conductor no one still conducting has been before the american Puhac or so Long he his new York Dybul Here Al inc metropolitan Hopcia. Conducting pie Levitt use. On Jan 21. 193fl the Vienna Nativi. Who already had been an As Isial to Arluro Toscani in Europe was Pul m Char a of Ito Mel s German or a in 1939 he has Boon music in actor of symphony orchestras. Including to Deslon symphony from 196? to 1969. But mostly Lein Sotl has Boon a a tics conductor la Midorl Iclet the Boston symphony because of Iho administrative workload to Ivan Lod to gel Buck to studying great composers minds und making music i m learning every Day " to says that s one of Iho nicer things about being 3 conductor i Loam a Groat Deal by going around Lodi Lurenl orchestras i Dofi i View in i be done everything i wanted to i Ihrk i have Toro or less. I m neither Solts lied nor do i led any kind of lust ration 1 Pia Babl Don 1 a link too much about Lein Dorl Del tics the task of a. Conduct of As More or less like coaching a learn in sports. Plus taking part in the game you have to in Rightn there and coordinate during Iho performance what you a a coached Tho important thing is thai Iho conductor be Force cd 35 a person who has Thoi to e Ganc Piaf while lha must ians Only Nave individual parts of it. A Winsdorf says Ido i t Hie tha weds authority and leadership they have an Uncle Osall political smell to them i so Russ to Young colleagues thai o Jery orchestra every squad should to Irea cd a Tinte hit . In you want Busl results Ard must live like our athletes you Havu to program your sell Loli a a quiet tie and nol bum around my wife and i Don l slay out Laid to i constantly add new repertoire team new i sgt bring up forgotten have a very Nice Sal of friends live on a sensible diet of food. Who you travel you have to forgo the local specialities if you re nol quite Suie what May Are " Luin Dorl smokes cigars occasionally dunks White wine with meals bul rot before a performance. There Are two ways to handle an assignment As conductor Reinsdorf says. Are you going to concentrate on forming the 50 hits of the classical repertoire or Are you going id make music from an Ever enlarging repertoire i would Ike to bring More and More music Lor the pleasure of the players and the audiences 1 think sight Reading with additional rehearsals is a far More productive Way of making Muse Inan digging into a Small repertoire and Irving to Lake Iho Nail Lile and get every last bit and piece. I constantly add new repertoire. Learn now things bring up forgotten Lein Dorl and his first wife had live children. An eighth godchild is on the Way Foi the past id years he has been manned to Vcra Graf who travels Wilh him. She gave up a As a viol nil. I regret thai very much a Winsdorf says bul she Felt she had Dona enough years. Practising was awkward in hotel rooms and nol practising Means you dete Torale very fasl which we have seen with a lot of people on siring this season Cpl 1 to May i. Lem Dorl s first Sis weeks were in Europe and Ihen there wore appearances m new York Chicago Philadelphia Cleveland. 51. Louis Palm Beach and Clea Walor. Fla. And Washington o c Holl conduct 20 or 24 Dill Erani programs in june he conducts in Paris. His Book the composer s advocate has just been translated Inlo Hussian and do you head music was translated Inlo japanese. Beside wring teamed Hooks Lom Dorl Wriles Doggerel verse and en0ys exchanging in with people Ito pianist Rudolf Serkin and five stagehands in Chicago comparing the Mel opera orchestra to Mel in late 1937 Wilh the last group he conducted Al the met in 19b3, Lein Dorl says the orchestra in 1983 was More skillful technically and May have had belter Zinsli umans the knowledge of Iho Content of the opera they wore playing was higher m 1937. The musicians who were for the most part immigrants. Brought in with them from choir schooling in Europe i have observed a similar reaction m the Public if this is due to screwball stage directors i can t decide today More than Ever. The Public is devoted to musical thrills and bored by opera s complicated plots ideas and philosophy " when her or not a conductor uses a score has no influence on the Caliper of a Philo Romance. Reinsdorf says every musician who has sat in an orchestra will Lei you there arc conductors who memorize and what they memorize is the outline of the score. Fifty years ago. You had to study scenes ii was not possible to sit in front of a gramophone and hear music until you knew its outline people who know More about recordings than i do i Don i listen to records Tell me they Olton recognize splicing errors in some conductors interpretations " Lem Dorl s teacher wanted him to become a pianist. I fell it was t my sport to says. I could learn music Kaslor than my lingers could it would Lake x amount of Lime to learn the music bul 50c times x to learn it on a keyboard. I found at about 191 could gel on with orchestras at the Academy in Vienna we had a huge we Hestia Al Ler watching us conduct once. The supervisor said. Why can Only Erich discipline Ihn Bunch of students somebody said. He has a loud voice to can shout them Down i thought so Well Sec i can use this loud voice " saturday. January 23, 1i8b the stars and stripes Paga 17
