Tony Duggan <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>From UPI
>
>CLEVELAND, June 7 (UPI) -- Austrian conductor Franz Welser-Most will
>succeed Christoph von Dohnanyi as the Cleveland Orchestra's music
>director in 2002.

What a dreadful choice to lead such a fine orchestra!  I still remember
the lifeless rendition of the "Eroica" he did with the LA Phil some years
ago.  It was so bad I will never again attend a concert with him as the
conductor.  (The fact that he ignored the repeats was only one dismal
aspect of that awful performance-- not that I want to reopen that thread.)

Surely there must have been someone better who could have taken the lead
of the Clevelanders.  Then again, perhaps all the wind-up monkeys were
otherwise engaged.

Jocelyn Wang
Culver Chamber Music Series
www.geocities.com/Vienna/strasse/4684