Kevin Sutton wrote:

>Allan Kohrman wrote:
>
>>My longshot is Jeffrey Tate, who knows his way around the Mozart- Beethoven
>>repetoire in ways that few others do.  But he has a physical handicap and
>>thus lacks the charisma of Barenboim, Ozawa, Muti, and other musical
>>mediocrities.
>
>What on earth does having a physical handicap have to do with having (or
>not having) personality? I find that Mr. Tate is quite capable of holding
>his own in the charisma category.

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I'd heard that Jeffrey Tate was more than
merely "handicapped", but actually ill.

Walter Meyer