Bob Yoon wrote: >Didn't Mehta also raise the level of the Montreal Sym? I think he did from what I heard from sources unremembered. But Dutoit did even more if what I heard from the orchestra in a Boston concert a few years ago is true. And it was that night. Dutoit is one of those conductors who, to me anyway, seems to be more of an orchestra builder than a great conductor. (I think this was brought up a little while ago on the list.) I have never heard a recording of his that I have liked all that much. I've heard him live three times, once with Montreal, once with a pretty bad Mahler 5 with the Philharmonia, I think, and a worse concert with his new Paris orchestra a couple of years ago. If he's the orchestra builder he seems to be, he's got his work cut out there. That was not good playing. Roger Hecht