曾任费城交响乐团近半个世纪指挥的尤金·奥曼迪1985年3月12日因患肺炎在费城去世,享年85岁。奥曼迪1980年已将指挥权转交给一位年轻指挥里卡多·穆蒂(Ricardo Muti),但他还作为荣誉指挥一直指挥到去世为止。奥曼迪喜欢把自己的演出成果称为他的“音乐孩子”。1976年他说:“现在许多指挥一身任二、三个甚至四个职位,他们从一处尽可能快地赶到另一处,最终他们获得了什么呢?他们没有自己的孩子—— Eugene Omandi, a former Philharmain Orchestra conductor for nearly half a century, died at the age of 85 in Philadelphia on March 12, 1985, suffering from pneumonia. Omanty handed over command to a young conductor in 1980, Ricardo Muti, but he also commanded the honor of being dead until death. Ormandy loves to call his performance “his musical child.” In 1976, he said: "Now many of them direct two, three or even four positions, they go from place to place as soon as possible, in the end they got what they do not have their own children -