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  “Four of the world’s greatest conductors, or so the joke goes, are bickering about which one is best.   “My Chicago sound” is revered everywhere,"  says Sir Georg Solti, “and I’ve been knighted by the Queen of England.”   “Ah, but my tours with the Boston Symphony have been a triumph,” says Seiji Ozawa.   “I’m the most respected Japanese name since Sony.”   “Yes, but who else here is as celebrated a composer as he is conductor?” interjects Leonard Bernstein.   “It was God himself who inspired me to write my ‘Mass’.”   “No I did not!” snaps Herbert von Karajan.   -Newsweek 10/82