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===Lorin Maazel (1972–1982)===
The board selected [[Lorin Maazel]] as the orchestra’s fifth music director.  His tenure began in 1972.<ref name="Rosenberg">{{Cite book|last=Rosenberg|title=The Cleveland Orchestra Story: Second to None|pages=415–419}}</ref>  Maazel had first conducted the orchestra at age 13 in 1943, in a concert at Public Hall.<ref name="Rosenberg" />  During Maazel's tenure, many critics were initially unimpressed with his musical interpretations, which they believed were too emotionally charged to follow Szell’s razor-crisp style.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rosenberg|title=The Cleveland Orchestra Story: Second to None|pages=428–431}}</ref> But soon Maazel was lifted by an endorsement from [[Philadelphia Orchestra]] conductor [[Eugene Ormandy]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rosenberg|title=The Cleveland Orchestra Story: Second to None|pages=432}}</ref> and the promise of a new collaboration with [[Decca Records]] on [[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]]’s ''[[Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev)|Romeo and Juliet]]'', which proved to be the spark Maazel needed to jumpstart his Cleveland Orchestra career.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rosenberg|title=The Cleveland Orchestra Story: Second to None|pages=435–437}}</ref> During the 1973–74 season, Maazel led the orchestra on a tour of Australia and New Zealand,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rosenberg|title=The Cleveland Orchestra Story: Second to None|pages=439–441}}</ref> joined by guest conductors [[Stanisław Skrowaczewski|Stanislaw Skrowaczewski]] and Erich Leinsdorf.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rosenberg|title=The Cleveland Orchestra Story: Second to None|pages=439}}</ref> The orchestra also played a series of concerts in Japan.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rosenberg|title=The Cleveland Orchestra Story: Second to None|pages=445–446}}</ref> During the following season, the orchestra released its first commercial recording of an opera, [[George Gershwin]]’s ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'', which was also Decca’s first opera recording in the United States.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rosenberg|title=The Cleveland Orchestra Story: Second to None|pages=451}}</ref> Maazel left the orchestra after the 1981–82 season, to take over the directorship of the [[Vienna State Opera]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rosenberg|title=The Cleveland Orchestra Story: Second to None|pages=473–475}}</ref> Before his departure, however, Maazel helped to introduce the orchestra’s landmark Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Concerts in January 1980, which remain an annual tradition to this day.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rosenberg|title=The Cleveland Orchestra Story: Second to None|pages=476–477}}</ref> On May 15, 1982, Maazel conducted his final performance at Severance Hall followed by a short tour of New York and [[New Haven, Connecticut|New Haven]], where he led concerts featuring [[Giuseppe Verdi|Giuseppe Verdi’s]] ''[[Requiem (Verdi)|Requiem]]'', which had been his debut piece with the orchestra in 1972.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rosenberg|title=The Cleveland Orchestra Story: Second to None|pages=489}}</ref>