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Peter Goldstein <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 22 May 2000 18:47:56 -0400
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James Tobin, and then Ramon Khalona wrote:

>>The Milwaukee Symphony performed Bloch's Concerto Grosso #1 this
>>season--the only time I've ever seen anything by Bloch on a concert
>>program.  I've loved that piece nearly all my life.  (I can hear it in
>>my head now.)
>
>So can I, especially after this weekend's taping of Kubelik's marvelous
>recording of it with the Chicago Symphony (only available, as far as I
>know, on a Mercury LP).  This is high on my wish list of items to be
>reissued on CD.

Count me in.  I remember when I heard that piece for the first time, about
25 years ago.  I immediately went out and bought the LP, and played it over
maybe a thousand times.  It's still one of my very very favorites.

Peter Goldstein

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