During the Cleveland Orchestra's breakneck European tour (eleven countries, 29 concerts in 41 days), its reception has been in tune with the critic of Paris' Le Monde, who thought that he had "never heard anything more excellent." In Barcelona audiences cheered their approval of the orchestra's classical repertory. For Budapest-born Conductor George Szell, the greatest recognition came in Vienna. where that dean of critics, grumpy old (83) Max Graf, who knew Szell as a boy, voiced one of his rare, muted raves. "The sounds," he said, "were good indeed."
It was in Poland last week that the enthusiasm for the Clevelanders reached...
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