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Ormandy

American  
[awr-muhn-dee] / ˈɔr mən di /

noun

  1. Eugene, 1899–1985, U.S. conductor and violinist, born in Hungary.


Ormandy British  
/ ˈɔːməndɪ /

noun

  1. Eugene. 1899–1985, US conductor, born in Hungary

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She said the orchestra had long put aside its reputation for a heavy string sound, developed when Eugene Ormandy was music director from 1936-80.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 9, 2024

The tour marked the 50th anniversary of the orchestra’s first visit, just after President Richard Nixon’s pathbreaking summit with Mao Zedong—a trip that Nixon, who was a friend of Eugene Ormandy, the symphony’s conductor, arranged.

From Slate • Dec. 28, 2023

In Minneapolis, he will head an orchestra whose past music directors include Eugene Ormandy, Dmitri Mitropoulos, Antal Dorati, Neville Marriner and Edo de Waart.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2022

Furtwängler gave it Wagnerian stakes; Herbert von Karajan and Eugene Ormandy swamped it in sound; Stokowski and Leonard Bernstein toyed with it, and the score didn’t particularly mind.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2022

This summer the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy will premiere a new, major composition of Rorem's, Sunday Morning.

From 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s by Millard, Max

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