"There would be no point in banning Wagnerian music during the war merely in the grounds that Wagner was a German," Erich Leinsdorf, the world's leading Wagnerian conductor, who is now in Boston to ...

Like sea captains, opera impresarios have to rule with an iron hand. And no crew that ever sailed the seas could be more unruly than the average opera house’s staff of strutting tenors and ...

Of the nearly four thousand operas that have been produced on stage, only forty or fifty have survived in current repertory. Boston Symphony conductor Erich Leinsdorf was for many years a conductor of ...

Leinsdorf conducts RavelToday is the birthday of the famed conductor Erich Leinsdorf, born February 4, 1912. From one of his recordings, we hear the "Danse generale" from Daphnis and Chloe, by Maurice ...

The Los Angeles Philharmonic is one of our great American orchestras on PT this week. They're playing the Danse Generale from Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2. Erich Leinsdorf is conducting.

Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1962 to 1969 maestro Erich Leinsdorf conducts filmed selections of Beethoven and Wagner which were originally aired between October and December of 1965 ...