My organization presented Royal Phil. w/ Gatti last night at the Kennedy Center. We heard about Gatti's outburst on Friday and were rightfully a bit cautious. Tim Page from the Washington Post picked up the story and wrote about it on Saturday, which only helped ticket sales. Well, luckily the conductor behaved himself last night and the audience didn't get a lecture. His management company had requested to be in the audience, so they had come down from New York earlier in the day. Maybe, I was reading too much into it, but he almost seemed a little sheepish in his behaviour towards the audience. As for the concert itself, I wasn't that thrilled with it. Technically, the Royal Phil. left a lot to be desired. Gatti kept trying to get the strings to play with more verve. Maybe, they are tired from their U.S. tour. He also seemed to put over-emphasis on the brass in the Tchaikovsky 5th. On a more positive note, the audience at KC seemed more well-behaved than they normally are, and they didn't let any late-comers in in-between movements of the Brahms piano concerto #2. Garrick Ohlsson was quite accomplished, as usual. Gatti is quite the active conductor, with arms flailing about all over the place. Usama Amin WPAS