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

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