Talk:Antal Doráti

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[edit] Happy Centenary, Antal

Happy 100th birthday for tomorrow, wherever you are. Thank you for your great recordings of great music. JackofOz 09:16, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] His birth name

In about 1974 I was turning pages for the Hungarian-American cellist Janos Scholz. I happened to ask him why everyone seemed to stress "Dorati" on the second syllable when all Hungarian words, and names, are stressed on the first. He (who of course knew Dorati) replied that "Dorati" was a non-Hungarian name the conductor had made up himself--for obvious reasons, if you knew that his birth name was "Deutsch." Ccerf (talk) 20:15, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

The first hit in this google search appears to confirm this. Unfortunately, one needs to pay to get the full text. It's well known that Ormandy's name was Blau; but obviously less well known about Dorati's name being Deutsch, otherwise it'd be cited in various places, yet it doesn't appear to be. -- JackofOz (talk) 20:37, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Also, I'm adding a {{Fact}} tag to the "Antal Deutsch" addition to the article. There is a half-reference to his surname being Deutsch, but we have no knowledge of whether his original given name was Antal or something else. -- JackofOz (talk) 01:59, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Detroit Symphony at Orchestra Hall

According to the linked article on Orchestra Hall, and my memory as a youngster attending DSO concerts, the Orchestra did not return until 1989. Given the length of the restoration, Dorati probably advocated for it long before it actually happened. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.88.212.44 (talk) 17:16, 10 March 2008 (UTC)