I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.

In 1962 he was named music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Leinsdorf was the principal conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra from 1947 to 1955. He made a number of recordings with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for Capitol.

He performed and recorded with leading orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Europe earning a reputation for exacting standards as well as an acerbic personality. Erich Leinsdorf (born Erich Landauer) (February 4 1912 – September 11 1993) was an Austrian-born American conductor.