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In Reply to: RE: Maazel/Cleveland posted by pbarach on April 19, 2021 at 14:00:49
The first year I attended concerts at Severance Hall in 1980, Maazel was the music director, in his final season..... It was then basically "music director by committee" the few years after that, before Christoph von Dohnanyi became MD in I believe 1984...... (I thought the Orchestra performed some phenomenal concerts between the Maazel and Dohnanyi eras.) That first year, I believe I saw him for about ten concerts..... Aside from a phenomenal Beethoven Seven, none of them were memorable.
When I saw him conduct live in Cleveland, I was struck by how "hyper" he was at the time..... (He made Gustavo Dudamel look "relaxed".... ) It almost looked like he was on speed or something.... I remember one moment where he almost knocked over the music stand in front of cellist Stephen Geber, who then had to get the music back in order..... Concertgoers told me Maazel in previous years sent his baton flying into the orchestra or audience on a few occasions......
The post-Cleveland Maazel didn't have any semblance of this hyper behavior..... (He seemed "sedated" in his later years.) I sometimes wonder if he had a medical condition, that was maybe addressed.
Follow Ups:
"The first year I attended concerts at Severance Hall in 1980, Maazel was the music director, in his final season..... "This was not accurate...... It was Maazel's next-to-last season......
I spent my sophomore year of college at UC Santa Barbara, in what would have been the 1981-82 season... Which was Lorin Maazel's last season as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra. (I remember the Cleveland Orchestra broadcasts, which at the time were nationally syndicated, host Robert Conrad stated that Maazel was leaving the Cleveland Orchestra to become the music director of the Vienna State Opera.... Which even now I thought was a curious move.... Unless his contract as Cleveland Orchestra music director was finished and not extended... But I never knew anything in regard to that.... But the Cleveland Orchestra was not ready to court a successor.) So in actuality, I missed Maazel's final season with the Cleveland Orchestra altogether.
I returned to Cleveland (Case Western Reserve Univ.) the following year, and I once again attended concerts at Severance Hall. Until I graduated in May of 1985 (Witnessed Christoph von Dohnanyi's first season as Cleveland Orchestra Music Director).
Edits: 04/25/21
That's where one of my kids graduated, having transferred there from the University of Texas, San Antonio. Some of those classes were practically on the beach!
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