Richard A. Ujvary ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Yes, it's mine.  I meant "IATW" really as a reference to the whole Beatles
>oeuvre in its effect on the classical side.  If the author's argument is
>true then it would be ironic that it took a bunch of "mop-heads" from the
>contemporary pop world to imbue vitality and publicity to a dead Viennese
>musical artist.  It's a tribute to Bernstein that he could see genius in
>an art form really away from his neck of the woods and use it to further
>his passion for getting Mahler out to a wider public.

I still don't believe the basic argument.  Bernstein's first mahler
recordings were made before anyone outside Liverpool (and Hamburg) knew
who the Beatles were.

Any chance of a precis of the argument?

deryk barker
([log in to unmask], http://www.camosun.bc.ca/~dbarker)