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


Deryk Barker wrote:
>
>>Well the Concertgebouw (hall and orchestra) certainly have the track
>>record, but I think that, with the zeal of the newly-converted, you are
>>overestimating Chailly's stature as a Mahlerian which, IMHO, is good but
>>not great.
>
>Aren't you forgetting the Mahler reputation built up by van Beinum and
>Haitink, not to mention Mengelburg? Quite a team to go head-to-head with
>(and you'll most probably chastise me for putting a proposition at the end
>of the sentence....)

I carefully (so I thought) said that the orchestra has the track record (by
which I meant Mengelberg et.  al) but that I don't believe Chailly is a
great Mahlerian (yet).

As for prepositions, here is a good one from Stephen Fry: young child, ill
in bed is bored, so asks mother to fetch a book from downstairs to read to
her.  Mother returns with a book on Australia.

"Oh mum!" came the plaintive cry, "what did you go and get a book about
Down Under up for?" (for 5 in a row at the end....)

Deryk Barker
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