In Reply to: Judging orchestras by hearing them through a radio?! posted by Rick W on February 11, 2007 at 13:58:00:
for no reason apparent to me.BSO will not be able to be the best for at least a generation, as Ozawa seemed to hire on the basis of "who can't possibly blend with what I have already? THAT'S who I want." (If that was his intention he couldn't have done better.) It will take a while for Levine to sort it all out, if he stays long enough.
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Follow Ups
- Someone's in the thrall of Levine - markrohr 14:30:32 02/11/07 (13)
- "...for no reason apparent to me." So: You heard the Berlioz. What was there not to love? - clarkjohnsen 11:34:10 02/12/07 (6)
- Re: "...for no reason apparent to me." So: You heard the Berlioz. What was there not to love? - Brian Cheney 15:36:35 02/12/07 (2)
- "It seems curious to choose the least-performed Beethoven symphony,.." - clarkjohnsen 10:35:09 02/13/07 (1)
- Re: "It seems curious to choose the least-performed Beethoven symphony,.." - Brian Cheney 18:02:30 02/13/07 (0)
- "So: You heard the Berlioz." Nope, didn't say that. - markrohr 12:12:19 02/12/07 (2)
- "I find him utterly ordinary." Unlike Dyer, Schwartz, Gantz, Medrick, Katz, Eichler and every other Boston critic. - clarkjohnsen 12:30:18 02/12/07 (1)
- I don't make judgments, musical or otherwise - markrohr 04:19:22 02/13/07 (0)
- I haven't heard the BSO in many years, but..... - Rick W 14:49:49 02/11/07 (5)
- Re: I haven't heard the BSO in many years, but..... - Todd Krieger 01:43:47 02/12/07 (3)
- Maybe so, but this was about *ranking* orchestras. nt - Rick W 14:59:30 02/12/07 (0)
- attaboy, Todd K---go, go, go - docw 12:38:58 02/12/07 (0)
- "The digitization of music has stunted our ability..." Indeed! The CD (untreated) makes it almost impossible... - clarkjohnsen 11:23:20 02/12/07 (1)
- They can't be, given the classical music business today. - rbolaw 16:22:33 02/11/07 (0)