Karl Miller wrote:

>I wonder...will we hear some American Music done by the BBC...

You already do.  Plenty, in fact.  In 1998 Radio 3 mounted a huge strand of
American music programmes that spanned the whole year and produced two or
three concerts each week.

In fact the coming of Slatkin might mean we get to hear more British music
- Arnold, Brian, etc., which we could do with.

Tony Duggan,  England.
My (developing) Mahler recordings survey is at:
http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/Mahler/index.html