In Reply to: Antal Dorati posted by rbolaw on September 19, 2014 at 13:03:44:
I have friends from the National Symphony (now retired) who were there from Howard Mitchell, to Dorati, to Rostropovich, to Slatkin, and they look at the Dorati years as the best ones of their career. He may have mellowed a bit in his relationships with the players, but he still had trouble with management. Dorati pretty much got himself fired. I can't recall the details right now, but they were negotiating a contract and Dorati basically drew a line in the sand, calling their bluff, and they told him to hit the bricks. They hired Rostropovich figuring that it would raise the reputation of the orchestra. Well, what happened was that Rostropovich got more famous for being the conductor of the NSO, but the NSO's reputation didn't come along for the ride.
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