John Proffitt wrote:

>...  Few music lovers would be without, e.g., the Mozart Requiem or
>Puccini's Turandot or Bartok's Viola Concerto, among other repertory
>works rendered "complete" by other hands.  Of course, Bernstein refused
>to consider a completed Mahler 10th, but then, that was not the first
>or only time that Lenny was flat out wrong.

I would make bold to suggest that the matter of Mahler's 10th is somewhat
different from either Turandot or WAM's Requiem.  However unhappy one
might be that these works were not completed by their resp.  composers,
they were largely completed.  Those who know the story of Mahler's 10th
must in my opinion grant Lenny a certain justification.  That is not to
argue against the 6 who have chosen to "realize" Mahler's 10th.  Let us
note that Turandot was completed immediately for performance and so was
WAM's Requiem whereas the first full realization of Mahler's 10th was
not undertaken for multiple decades and well you know the rest.  OK, so
Toscanini in the premiere stopped at the point at which Puccini stopped.
But after that it has always been given complete (and probably will be
and not with Berio's new try).

Yoel