Andrew Carlan <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>...  Ozawa still needs training wheels and he has been
>conducting the Boston Symphony long enough that all the recommended
>recordings with that once great orchestra are from the early LP period
>and back.  Not that kind of deconstructing REALLY takes doing.

I'm certainly no fan of Ozawa, either.  I've not heard him live, but
every recording of his I've heard has been fair-to-middling at best.  But
does that mean that the Cleveland Orchestra should also have a mediocre
conductor? I frown at the idea that Welser-Most should have a run in
Cleveland as long as Ozawa has had in Boston.  BTW, why on Earth wasn't
Ozawa replaced decades ago?

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