Jacek Niecko wrote:

>But one thing about Muti strikes me as somewhat odd--he seems to be
>conducting as if he were a machine--no smile, no lighter-hearted gesture
>of any kind ever.
>
>The only other conductor I remember seeing on tape that behaved like
>that is Richard Strauss.

Surely you must remember also Furtwangler's style of conducting: Dry,
no gesture, and according to some critics absolutely out of time.

Arturo Llamas Orenday <[log in to unmask]>