Music: Last of the Old-School Maestros

Eugene Ormandy ends a great one-man epoch in Philadelphia

This coming Saturday will be like any other day for Eugene Ormandy. He will study scores, do some arm exercises, take a nap. After dinner he will walk the few blocks from his elegant Barclay Hotel apartment to Philadelphia's venerable Academy of Music. There he will conduct the Philadelphia Orchestra in a typical Ormandy program, the First Symphonies of Shostakovich and Mahler. No matter what tributes or ceremonies may be offered, he will try to step down from the podium as usual with a minimum of sentiment and fuss.

So will end one of...