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	Eugene Ormandy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eugene Ormandy (November 18, 1899 – March 12, 1985) was a conductor and violinist.
		Ormandy was appointed conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra from 1931, where he served until 1936.
		Ormandy was appointed as the Philadelphia Orchestra associate conductor (alongside Leopold Stokowski) from 1936, and in 1938 was appointed music director and conductor until his retirement in 1980, when he was made their Conductor Laureate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eugene_Ormandy (934 words)

	Eugene Ormandy (Conductor) - Short Biography
		Eugene Ormandy was invited to undertake a concert tour of the USA, playing violin, but when he arrived he discovered he had been misled and the tour had fallen through.
		The turning point in Eugene Ormandy 's career came in 1931 when he was invited to replace Toscanini, who was slated for a guest performance with the Philadelphia Orchestra, but had suddenly become ill. Although his manager, Arthur Judson, advised him against it, Ormandy chose to do it and became and overnight sensation.
		Eugene Ormandy conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra for an unprecedented 44 years.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/Ormandy-Eugene.htm (577 words)

	Eugene Ormandy: The Philadelphia Sound Incarnate
		Eugene Ormandy was born Jenö Blau in Budapest, Hungary, November 18, 1899 (he arrived in the U.S. on the S.S. Normandie, altered the steamer's name and adopted it as his own surname).
		Ormandy was clearly a true romantic, whose main concern was the sound of the music itself, rather than imposing a "scholarly interpretation" upon the score.
		Yet, at no time could Ormandy's emphasis on sound be mistaken for a lack of emotion; Rather, Ormandy was one of those rare alchemists of music, who could impart the most heart-rending, yet honest, emotions by getting the most he could out of every instrumentalist in his orchestra.
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	Eugene Istomin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eugene George Istomin (November 26, 1925 – October 10, 2003) was an American pianist born in New York City of Russian-Jewish parents.
		He was famous for his work in the trio, with Isaac Stern and Leonard Rose, known as the Istomin-Stern-Rose Trio, with whom he made many recordings, and particularly of music by Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert.
		He made his debuts with the Philadelphia Orchestra with Eugene Ormandy, playing a concerto by Chopin, and the New York Philharmonic conducted by Artur Rodzinski playing Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 in the same week in 1943.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eugene_Istomin (341 words)

	Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Eugene Ormandy
		Ormandy was invited to undertake a concert tour of the United States, playing violin, but when he arrived he discovered he had been misled and the tour had fallen through.
		The turning point in Ormandy's career came in 1931 when he was invited to replace Toscanini, who was slated for a guest performance with the Philadelphia Orchestra, but had suddenly become ill. Although his manager, Arthur Judson, advised him against it, Ormandy chose to do it and became and overnight sensation.
		In 1970, Ormandy cried as he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom "for bringing to each performance something more precious than his great gifts--himself and the rich experiences of his life." His sound was heard throughout the world for they toured extensively.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3782&source_type=A (581 words)

	Encyclopedia: Eugene Ormandy
		Eugene is the third largest city in the state of Oregon and the county seat of Lane County, Oregon.
		Eugene is the headquarters of the Lane Transit District (LTD), a public transportation agency formed in 1970.
		Eugene has a significant population of people in pursuit of alternative ideas including anarchism, and a strong aging hippie population.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Eugene-Ormandy (3170 words)

	Penn Special Collections - Ormandy/Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Eugene Ormandy dedicated his life to music, from the age of three, when he first picked up a violin, to shortly after his 84th birthday, when he conducted his last concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
		His training as a violinist governed much of his conducting technique and his frequent gesture of the bent left arm, bent fingers shaking, emulating a violinist's vibrato, was a familiar sight to musicians and audiences alike.
		The materials on display are a part of the Eugene Ormandy Archive, which includes the Maestro's personal and professional papers, music scores, and sound recordings.
	www.library.upenn.edu /exhibits/rbm/ormandy (259 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Eugene Ormandy
		Ormandy, Eugene, professional name of Eugene Blau (1899-1985), American conductor, born in Budapest, Hungary.
		Eugene, city in western Oregon and seat of Lane County, on the Willamette River.
		Eugene is located in the fertile Willamette River Valley, which is a...
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	Eugene ormandy
		Ormandy did so well in these instances that he was offered the position of being conductor for the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra.
		Ormandy thought the China tour to be the highlight of his tours.
		Ormandy was not so concerned with the rigid interpretation of a score of music.
	ks.essortment.com /conductorphilad_rnfu.htm (792 words)

	Eugene Ormandy
		Eugene Ormandy is a difficult conductor to classify.
		Ormandy’s conducting and Biggs’s playing are well suited to each other and tend toward the energetic (driven?) end of the possible spectrum.
		And Ormandy is more comfortable with the material at the end of his career.
	members.aol.com /gothamauricle/Ormandy.htm (356 words)

	Remembering Eugene Ormandy on the centennial anniversary of his birth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		For more than 40 years, from 1938 until his retirement in 1980, Eugene Ormandy was the music director and principal conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, one of the five major American orchestral ensembles.
		Born Eugen Blau in Budapest, Hungary, on November 18, 1899, Eugene Ormandy began taking violin lessons from his father in his childhood, entered the Budapest Music Academy at the age of five and becoming a pupil of the famous Hungarian violinist and composer Jenö Hubay at the age of nine.
		The transition from Stokowski to Ormandy was practically seamless, and Ormandy succeeded in maintaining the inimitable quality of the ensemble, which Stokowski had honed in 23 years of demanding work.
	www.unitel.de /uhilites/151199.htm (693 words)

	RCA Victor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		In 1936, Ormandy was asked to conduct the Budapest Orchestra, much to his father's disappointment—he believed that a career as a conductor paled next to the opportunity to be a great violinist.
		That same year, Ormandy became Associate Conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski, then in 1938, he was promoted to head the orchestra, where he remained for an unprecedented 44 years.
		Among the awards granted to Ormandy were the Presidential Medal of Freedom, bestowed in 1970 "for bringing to each performance something more precious than his great gifts—himself and the rich experiences of his life." He received the Kennedy Center’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 1982.
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	Information about U.S. FDC: 32¢ Eugene Ormandy: American Music Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		A Hungarian-American conductor, Eugene Ormandy was born on November 18, 1899, in Budapest, Hungary.
		By the time he was 17, Ormandy was a professor of violin himself and performed in concerts throughout Central Europe.
		Ormandy died on March 12, 1985, in Philadelphia.
	www.unicover.com /EA1CAKBC.HTM (447 words)

	Ormandy/Philadelphia orch: Kodaly, Bartok, Ginastera, Poulenc, Barber, Casella, Berg, Schoenberg, Webern
		Ormandy first conducted the orchestra in 1936 when Stokowski was still around, becoming "music director" formally in 1938.
		During Ormandy's near half-century tenure the Philadelphia Orchestra developed into one of the world's finest and we are fortunate they recorded profusely.
		Ormandy of course specialized in Hungarian music, and particularly welcome are the two Kodály works making their first appearance on CD all masterfully taken from original Columbia LPs.
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	Ormandy early recordings
		To the manner born as it were, Ormandy and his Philadelphians (by then indisputably his) recorded the music in 1947 for Columbia, their label from1943 until the late '60s.
		Yet Ormandy didn't cut, hurry, or overlook details; obviously he loved the challenge, and posthumously, 62 years later, makes us love it too, even the pomposity of a triple fugue at the end.
		Listening requires a suspension, not so much of disbelief but of irritation that nothing better could have been done as late as 1948, in a community where sound was a major component of its chief industry: the movies.
	classicalcdreview.com /ormandy.htm (1050 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Ormandy, Eugene @ HighBeam Research
		ORMANDY, EUGENE [Ormandy, Eugene], 1899-1985, American conductor, b.
		At the age of five Ormandy entered the Budapest Conservatory, where he studied the violin.
		In 1936 he became associate conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra and later its permanent conductor and music director (1938-80).
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:Ormandy&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (170 words)

	Classical Net Review - Ormandy - American Symphonies by Piston, Harris & Schuman
		Ormandy's image as a high-class purveyor of schmaltz has overtaken his actual work.
		A violinist himself, he got wonderful sounds from his strings, and he made sure that the winds and brass of the Philadelphia were as good as any.
		Ormandy and the Philadelphia perform at their typical rhythmically loose, but this is a noble sweeping, powerful account and, in the long view, beautifully shaped and singing.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/a/alb00256b.html (1141 words)

	Angel Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Ormandy's favourite composer was Brahms but he was seen more conducting Romantic composers such as Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky.
		Since Ormandy's recorded catalogue was so vast, there are very few examples of hearing him live in concert so these two tracks will be important for all collectors.
		Eugene Ormandy made the world premiere recording of Webern's Im Sommerwind in 1963 which has never been issued on CD before.
	www.angelrecords.com /Detail.asp?UPCCode=724357512725 (660 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Eugene Istomin Dies; Well-Traveled Concert Pianist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Eugene Istomin, 77, a wide-roving concert pianist who played everywhere from bare community rooms to grand concert halls and was renowned for his trio recordings with violinist Isaac Stern and cellist Leonard Rose, died of liver cancer Oct. 10 at his home in Washington.
		Istomin is most identified with a series of performances and recordings he made with Stern and Rose from 1961 to 1984, the year Rose died of leukemia.
		Eugene George Istomin was born in New York to Russian parents who sang professionally.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A10992-2003Oct10?language=printer (849 words)

	The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Being honored on that date was Eugene Ormandy, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
		Dr. Ormandy was the first person ever to play the violin over the radio and he was a lifetime member of our organization.
		Les said that the material was given to an associate of Eugene Ormandy and so far we have not been able to track them down.
	www.broadcastpioneers.com /52579.html (527 words)

	Eugene Ormandy Would Be 103 Today
		Eugene Ormandy: The Philadelphia Sound Incarnate Eugene Ormandy was born Jenö Blau in Budapest, Hungary, November 18, 1899 (he arrived in the U.S. on the S.S. Normandie, altered the steamer's name and adopted it as his own surname).
		He was dismissed by some as "conservative," by others as "unimaginative." Yet, in his own, quiet, way, Ormandy built one of the finest, well-honed orchestras of the twentieth century.
		Ormandy, unlike the puffed up Bernstein, was a man who never lost touch with his common roots and the power of music to move all men.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/791498/posts (3357 words)

	Amazon.com: Eugene Ormandy: Music: Johannes Brahms,Dmitry Kabalevsky,Sergey Rachmaninov,Jean Sibelius,Richard ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Speaking of Sony Essential Classics "Take 2" CDs, Ormandy also did all of Rachmaninov's Symphonies with Philadelphia during his time with CBS, but the version presented here was done for RCA in 1973, and it was Ormandy's first recording of the complete original version of the work.
		What gives is that Eugene Ormandy and his over-hyped Fabulous Philadelphians were, despite everything, one of the greatest music producing engines ever.
		The Ormandy is the oldest, and it sounds old (my only misgiving on this recording is the muddiness when it gets loud), but it is still up at the top of the heap in terms of interpretation.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005V33N?v=glance (1882 words)

	Ormandy, Eugene. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Graduating in 1914, he became a member of the faculty.
		In 1936 he became associate conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra and later its permanent conductor and music director (1938–80).
		Ormandy was known for superb romantic interpretations, excelling in works by Beethoven and 19th-century masters.
	www.bartleby.com /65/or/Ormandy.html (156 words)

	Amazon.ca: Fantastic Philadelphians: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Ormandy lent to other recordings from this era (particularly his 1968 recording of Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony and his 1973 recording of Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony).
		This is Ormandy at his late-era peak, and is essential to understanding how he bought this orchestra to the position as one of the world's best, a standing it has held ever since FANTASIA.
		Ormandy and the Philadelphians--who are truly fantastic in these performances--give the listener an aural and musical treat.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000IWWN (1097 words)

	eBay - eugene ormandy, Records, Music Memorabilia items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Eugene Ormandy LP JAPAN Ravel / Bolero / La/4060119074I
		Eugene Ormandy LP JAPAN The Swan Lake / The/4060119075I
		Eugene Ormandy limited signed edition LP boxset mint
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	biography
		Eugene Istomin was long acknowledged as a leading pianist
		A rare combination of virtuosity, poetic insight and aristocratic style won him international acclaim as a recitalist, orchestral soloist, and chamber musician.
		He had the unique musical experience of peforming with such legendary conductors as Bruno Walter, Fritz Reiner, George Szell, Charles Munch, Dimitri Mitropolous, Eugene Ormandy, and Leonard Bernstein - in brief, a who's who of great maestros.
	www.eugeneistomin.com /biography.htm (489 words)

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