Also in 1959, he launched the ten-year career of the Festival Orchestra of New York. With that group in 1964 he led the New York premiere of Haydn's C Major Cello Concerto, a work discovered in 1961, with Janos Starker. He gained a wider reputation with a series of concerts of works by Bach and Handel at Carnegie Hall in 1961-2. In 1963, he presented Handel's "Messiah" four times in four different editions, further enhancing his reputation as a conductor of Baroque music. In 1963 "Time" magazine described him as "The hero of the baroqueniks."