"[They] led major concerts by Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony, gave the Philadelphia Orchestra premiere of the Shostakovich Symphony No. 8, and led the Metropolitan Opera's celebrated rehabilitation of Meyerbeer's Le Prophète. Most of them were robbed of that over-60 elder-statesman period when the world was likely to more widely celebrate their accumulation of artistic wisdom. […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM on September 2, 2020