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	Lorin Maazel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lorin Varencove Maazel (born March 6, 1930) is a conductor, violinist and composer.
		Maazel was born to American parents in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France and brought up in the United States.
		Following Cleveland, Maazel served at the Vienna State Opera from 1982 to 1984, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 1988 to 1996, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich from 1993 to 2002.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lorin_Maazel (298 words)

	Sony Classical Artist: Maazel, Lorin (Biography)
		Lorin Maazel is one of today's pre-eminent conductors, appearing regularly at concert and opera houses throughout the world.
		As conductor of opera, Lorin Maazel won acclaim in 1960 when, at the age of thirty, he became the first American and youngest conductor in history to conduct at the Bayreuth Festival.
		Lorin Maazel was born in Paris to American parents in 1930.
	www.sonyclassical.com /artists/maazel/bio.htm (646 words)

	Lorin Maazel - Older and More Mellow
		Lorin Maazel has been around for so long it is easy to forget that he is one of the last of the anointed, the Fifties crop who were raised to the podium by masters who had learned their craft from Mahler and Toscanini.
		Lorin Maazel is a complex artist whose role in the past half-century cannot yet be reliably assessed - for there is much that is untold, and more that is momentous and yet to come.
		Lorin Maazel conducts the Philharmonia at the Royal Festival Hall on May 31 and June 3.
	www.scena.org /columns/lebrecht/010530-NL-Maazel.html (1330 words)

	Lorin Maazel conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra RFH May31st, June 3 2001 (MB) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lorin Maazel's two concerts with the Philharmonia were fine examples of this conductor's ability to surprise.
		Maazel and the Philharmonia brought colossal power to the finale as, first, trombones, horns and trumpets slipped like an avalanche into terrifying cascades of sound and then violins, violas and cellos produced a subdued, but restless, calm.
		Maazel has had a long association with the Philharmonia Orchestra (from Klemperer's day) and they clearly like working with him - they offered during both the Mahler and Bruckner playing that was genuinely world class, as opulent as anything from Vienna and as dramatic as anything from Chicago.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2001/May01/Maazel.htm (1202 words)

	NewMusicbox
		Maazel, who has led orchestras in Berlin, Vienna, Cleveland and Pittsburgh and is currently music director of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, will replace Kurt Masur, 73, in the 2002-03 season.
		During his tenure in Cleveland, Lorin Maazel stretched the orchestra’s flexibility as an ensemble and demonstrated himself to be an ardent if not particularly discriminating champion of the new and recent.
		Maazel transformed the Pittsburgh Symphony from a decent ensemble that often did not play up to its potential to one that was competitive with the majors (it was also in Pittsburgh where he commanded the first seven-figure conductorship in history, but that is for another survey).
	www.newmusicbox.org /printerfriendly.nmbx?id=1118 (809 words)

	Untitled Document
		Maazel has released more than 250 recordings, including complete symphonic cycles of Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Sibelius, Rachmaninoff, and Tchaikovsky, as well as extensive operatic repertoire, but he is also an ardent champion of new works by major contemporary composers, and he holds two ASCAP awards for his programming of American music.
		Lorin Maazel, one of the world's most distinguished conductors, has conducted more than 150 orchestras in more than 5,000 opera and concert performances in the last half-century, appearing regularly at prestigious concert halls and opera houses around the world.
		Maazel is familiar to general audiences from his appearances as conductor of 10 of the last 18 New Year's concerts from Vienna (his most recent, on January 1, 1999, was seen by more than a billion television viewers).
	www.ffaire.com /pr/nyphil/maazel.html (1434 words)

	WNYC - Mad About Music: Lorin Maazel (September 22, 2002)
		Maazel: Well, I think the main problem in the relationship between music director and the orchestra he has been asked to guide, is the vanity of the conductor to the extent that it is overblown.
		Maazel: Well, you can't compare the two situations because in the one case, that is on tour with the Philharmonia, I was doing the last three symphonies, 39, 40 and 41, we were in a different hall every night with totally different acoustical conditions.
		Maazel: Well, in Cleveland and Pittsburgh where I was music director for several years I tried to vary that practice so that the principals were assigned at times to major concerti because I don't believe in the word "accompaniment".
	www.wnyc.org /shows/mam/episodes/2002/09/22 (4268 words)

	AllRefer.com - Lorin Varencove Maazel (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Maazel has held many important directorships in the United States and Europe, including those of the Deutsche Opera (1965–71), the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (1965–75), the Cleveland Orchestra (1972–82), the Vienna State Opera (1982–84), the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (1988–96), and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (1993–;).
		Maazel succeeded Kurt Masur as music director of the New York Philharmonic in 2002.
		Known for the breadth of his orchestral and operatic repertoire and for the rigor and depth of his musical interpretations, Maazel also is a composer and sometimes performs as a violinist.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MaazelL.html (283 words)

	Honoring the maestro
		Lorin Maazel, however, always has been a conductor who demands attention.
		He worked hard in his youth here in Pittsburgh, honing a talent that led Leopold Stokowski to call him "the prodigy of the century." Maazel was conducting scores by memory before his age hit the double digits, and playing violin prodigiously, too.
		A: This is something called "Maazel at Seventy" -- you'll excuse the pretentiousness of that title -- in which 13 orchestras have participated.
	www.post-gazette.com /magazine/20001205maazel2.asp (1856 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Celebrity news / Lorin Maazel cancels appearance music fest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lorin Maazel, music director of the New York Philharmonic, won't conduct the opera "Carmen" at a major festival in southern Spain due to emergency eye surgery.
		Maazel, 74, also was forced to cancel two concerts in the cities of Santiago de Compostela and Perelada last week, organizers added Tuesday.
		Maazel, an American born in Paris in 1930, took his first violin lesson at age 5.
	www.boston.com /ae/celebrity/articles/2004/08/03/lorin_maazel_cancels_appearance_music_fest (256 words)

	Telarc International: Lorin Maazel
		Lorin Maazel, Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, is one of today's most highly acclaimed and eagerly sought conductors.
		Lorin Maazel was born in Paris in 1930 of American parents and was brought to the United States as a child.
		Notable among the innumerable decorations, honorary doctor-ates, recording prizes, and awards for achievement with which Maestro Maazel has been honored are the Commander's Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Legion of Honor of France, and the Commander of the Lion of Finland.
	www.telarc.com /biography/bios.asp?aid=59&gsku=0650 (678 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Interview with conductor Lorin Maazel
		Maazel is one of those conductors who seems to have been around for ever.
		If the New York rumour is correct, then Maazel is about to enter into one of the most intensive periods of his life, placing his stamp on one of the most significant orchestras in the world, while at the same time resuming a solo career with the violin and promoting his new Maazel-Vilar conducting competition.
		Maazel has never been without his detractors, who are suspicious of his awesome facility.
	www.guardian.co.uk /friday_review/story/0,3605,428320,00.html (935 words)

	Greg Sandow -- Lorin Maazel's Debut
		Maazel's uncanny skill, which brought this piece to a close that hovered on the edge of silence.
		Maazel, I realized, can be impulsive; at times he rushed the music forward, like a man possessed.
		Maazel, it seems to me, communes not only with the Philharmonic, but also with himself, with unpredictable results.
	www.gregsandow.com /maazel_debut.htm (988 words)

	WNYC - Music - Lorin Maazel's Inaugural Season in Retrospect
		Lorin Maazel's season-closing performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" recently provided audiences and music critics with an opportunity to step back and weigh in on his first nine months as music director of the New York Philharmonic.
		At the same time, critics have remained decidedly mixed on Maazel's artistic agenda and his ability to transform the Philharmonic into a 21st-century institution, particularly at a time when orchestras are seen as dinosaurs catering to a graying audience.
		Maazel conducted the work from memory and with unflagging energy and confidence: the precision, radiance, incisiveness and, where called for, sheer brassy power of the playing was consistently impressive."
	www.wnyc.org /music/articles/17521 (388 words)

	Arts Journal: Hot issue: directors
		Lorin Maazel has been widely despised by the musicians of orchestras he has led.
		Lorin Maazel is the first American composer since Leonard Bernstein to be in charge of the New York Philharmonic.
		MAAZEL IN NEW YORK: The fever of speculation this week about whether Lorin Maazel would be appointed music director of the New York Philharmonic is accompanied by an interesting coincidence.
	www.artsjournal.com /issues/directors.htm (2968 words)

	New York Philharmonic: Lorin Maazel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lorin Maazel became Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in September 2002.
		Maazel most recently served as music director of the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio (1993 until summer 2002).
		Maazel was raised and educated in the United States.
	newyorkphilharmonic.org /meet/maestro/index.cfm?page=profile (1010 words)

	FT.com / Arts & Weekend / Art, music & theatre - London Symphony Orchestra/Lorin Maazel Barbican Hall, London
		A Schubert/Bruckner symphony cycle under Lorin Maazel was to have been one of the big events of the London concert season until an over-busy diary forced Maazel to cancel.
		Maazel's iron grip was also much in evidence in an unsmiling performance of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto.
		Maazel undeniably knows how to whip up a climax and the aggressive sound of this performance took us back to the brash playing of the bad old LSO days: never mind the quality, hear the decibels.
	news.ft.com /cms/s/c9a2a9f0-44cf-11d9-9f6a-00000e2511c8.html (371 words)

	Music Preview: Lorin Maazel knows the score with the New York Philharmonic
		Lorin Maazel is not the retiring type, although it looked that way in the late '90s.
		Maazel is a close friend of Penderecki, even interviewing him for his personal Web site, www.maestromaazel.com, and regrets dropping one of the only three pieces that PSO had programmed for its "Composer of the Year."
		Maazel does believe there are young conductors to carry the torch.
	www.post-gazette.com /ae/20040215maazel0215p4.asp (1157 words)

	Peter G. Davis-Classical Music-The New York Philharmonic
		Maazel, on the other hand, arrives as something of a puzzle, despite decades of prominence on the international scene and a busy career that dates back to his days as a child prodigy (he first conducted the New York Philharmonic 60 years ago, at age 12).
		Maazel and the orchestra did perform one good deed by preceding the symphony with the premiere of John Adams's On the Transmigration of Souls, commissioned in honor of the heroes and in memory of the victims of September 11.
		Here Maazel's technical mastery resulted in a performance that seemed close to perfection, suggesting that complex contemporary music, at least, is safe in the hands of the Philharmonic's new commander in chief.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/music/classical/reviews/n_7761 (725 words)

	The Semiconducting Superconductor - What do conductors do all day, anyway? By Jeremy Eichler
		But while Maazel's appointment is likely to continue to thrill the orchestra's board and its musicians, the local critics, myself included, have been less sanguine about his impending arrival.
		Many saw the opening of the philharmonic's post as a chance for the orchestra to take a bold step forward, to choose someone who might bring a youthful swagger, new synergy, new repertoire, and new enthusiasm, which is what seems to be happening elsewhere in the orchestral world.
		Maazel is a musician at the end of his career.
	www.slate.com /id/102061 (1399 words)

	Lorin Maazel - The Official website for the Music Director of the New York Philharmonic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lorin Maazel's interpretations are re-creative experiences that bring an incredible vitality to the music.
		The Maazels have also built a modern theater on the property of their pre-civil war manor house where they give chamber music concerts, classical dance events, readings, plays and the occasional gala with colleagues such as Itzhak Perlman, Jose Carreras and Mstislav Rostropovich.
		As well, Lorin Maazel has a special interest in the theater.
	www.maestromaazel.com /bio.html (502 words)

	Welcome to the Pittsburgh Symphony Website
		He was offered and accepted that position in 1988, having already dazzled the world and won the hearts of the players in the course of numerous guest appearances and three acclaimed tours.
		Maazel later joined the Orchestra as a violinist and apprentice conductor while studying at the University of Pittsburgh.
		Maazel studies the score of Steel Symphony with composer Leonardo Balada, head of composing studies at Carnegie Mellon University.
	www.pittsburghsymphony.org /pghsymph.nsf/web/1984.html (531 words)

	New York Philharmonic: Lorin Maazel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Maazel talks about the Orchestra, Philharmonic audiences, and the experience of making music with the 106 virtuosos of the New York Philharmonic.
		View the photo highlights of Maestro Maazel's tenure as the Philharmonic's Music Director, leading the Orchestra both at home and abroad.
		A month-by-month overview of the highlights of Lorin Maazel's first and second seasons with the Philharmonic.
	nyphil.org /meet/maestro/index.cfm?page=home (170 words)

	classical music - andante - lorin maazel and the new york philharmonic at their very best, in ravel's complete ...
		However controversial he may be, Lorin Maazel is, at times, an indisputably great conductor, and at least half of his Kimmel Center concert on Friday demonstrated that excellence.
		Even more to the liking of Maazel's logician streak, the music represents one of Ravel's great feats of musical reconciliation, with hugely disparate gestures and instrumental combinations positioned in a huge sound field with an unassailable air of reason.
		With so many elements in balance, Maazel had no lapses in taste, even amid the trombone glissandos of the "Danse grotesque." Maazel did hold the piece's final chord so long that you wondered if he was waiting for next Thursday.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25110 (666 words)

	Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Lorin Maazel
		Maestro Maazel has conducted throughout Europe, Australia, North and South America, Japan, the former Soviet Union, at most international festivals and opera houses, including Salzburg, Edinburgh, and Lucerne, the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Paris Opera, and Covent Garden, and has appeared with all the major symphony orchestras.
		Prior to his tenure as Music Director, Maestro Maazel conducted more than 100 performances of the New York Philharmonic â“ three at Lewisohn Stadium (the summers of 1942, 1943, and 1944),Â 43 in the 1960s, 60 in the 1970s, and eight during the 2000-2001 season.
		Maazel is interested in expanding the repertoire of narrated texts with orchestra.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entity_id=3585&source_type=A (860 words)

	NewsPro Archive
		LORIN MAAZEL: ``A Vuchella'' is a mountain song written by Tosti, the text to which was written by Gabriel Danuncio, who was from the north of Italy, did not speak the Neapolitan dialect, which is like another language.
		LORIN MAAZEL: Seventh, its 160th anniversary as an orchestra, the oldest orchestra in the United States.
		LORIN MAAZEL: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and an overture by Carl Maria Weber, von Weber.
	www.bocellionline.com /newspro/arc10-2002.html (5903 words)

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