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Article: Appreciation; Master Builder With a Baton; Antal Dorati, the Conductor Who Helped Mold the NSO
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- The Washington Post
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- November 15, 1988
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Antal Dorati, who died Sunday in Switzerland, was a native of
Hungary but for nearly half a century a key figure in American music.
He became an American citizen in 1947, 10 years after his first
concert appearance in this country as a guest conductor of the
National Symphony Orchestra, which he later served as music director.
A graduate of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, during the
years between the two wars when it was one of the world's great music
schools, Dorati came to be seen as an embodiment of the great Central
European musical tradition. He was particularly respected as a
specialist in the music of his two great countrymen Be'la Barto'k and
Zolta'n Koda'ly, both of whom ...
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... ... worked, he said, 'National Symphony Orchestra,'" Haroutounian ... I work at the National Symphony Orchestra,' and ... director, left and Antal Dorati took over, of course ... mid-1990s, the National Symphony Orchestra's prestige ...
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