The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy, proved why it was “perhaps the finest in the world,” during a performance at Expo ’74. The Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Cleveland Orchestra ...
Conductors Eugene Ormandy, 58, and Fritz Reiner, 69, are two boys from Budapest, but musically they have never talked the same language. Ormandy’s orchestral speech is as rich and gusty as Reiner’s is ...