Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

>Good question, but they [LAPO] already had Solti on board when Mehta
>was appointed (without Solti's knowledge or approval, which is why he
>resigned).  So I'm assuming they weren't totally hopeless before him.

Solti was newly-appointed, and never led the LAPO as music director.
He had no time to have had any influence whatever on their playing.

Don Winter