Steve Schwartz wrote: >Bert Bailey: > >>... And yet who, outside of Mexico (besides Karl, of course), has heard >>of Carlos Prieto, cellist? > >I have. And he's an even better conductor. He did a burn-down-the-barn >performance of the Shostakovich Fifth with the Louisiana Philharmonic. >Better him than Jimmy "The Hut" Levine in Boston. Better a lot of people than Jimmy "The Hut". (Fabulous nickname. Congratulations.) Just heard a rather dull Mahler 3 from Jimmy, though two caveats. 1) I heard it over the radio, and 2) I'm told the previous night's was better. What I heard was the Friday matinee. Roger Hecht *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html