Jonathan Ellis ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>... (and, of course, it just had to be Deryk - is there nothing that man
>doesn't know?)

Plenty.

>...  I just have this horrible feeling that I am finally giving in to peer
>pressure (counting myself the peer to all you intellectuals on the list) -
>and I have always resented being put in a position where other people can
>say "I told you so." Especially when those other people are DB!

The word's ITYS were nowhere near my lips or fingers.....will it make
you feel better if I admit that I hated Chopin until I was nearly 30?

>Would my friend Deryk expect the San Francisco Symphony under MTT to do any
>better than Chailly when they perform in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam?
>Will they have the enormous success fellow-lister Janos is predicting? Or
>is that just a typical piece of OTT Californian hype?

Weeeeeeeeeeeeell now, who can say.  I did think Janos was a little OTT
there.  MTT - assuming he is conducting - has respectable "chops" and his
Mahler 3 (which I have yet to hear) is highly regarded in some quarters
(and apparently MTT thinks very highly of the Horenstein 3rd, so he can't
be all bad).  OTOH their Mahler 2 under Blomstedt was beautifully played
and recorded but dull as ditchwater.

Still, as Pierre Boulez has remarked: fortunately Music is not the
Olympics.

Deryk Barker
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