Karl Miller writes:

>Wouldn't it be wonderful if they were to hire someone who would also be
>a strong, positive force for Tanglewood, and could recapture some of the
>spirit of a Koussevitzky and support American composers and explore the
>repertoire.  The only personality that comes to mind that could even
>approach that would be Tilson Thomas...at least in my mind.

Yes, it would be wonderful - but I take it that Tilson Thomas is firmly
esconsed in San Francisco.  Younger members of this list may not know that
Tilson Thomas filled in for the better part of a season (as I remember it)
when Steinberg took ill.  He was popular and successful, but deemed too
young.  I still remember concert master Joseph Silverstein's comment:
an orchestra needs a poppa.

B Chasan