Then Dan Dickstein wrote:

>I've always wondered how people can maintain the notion that anyone who
>cut such a distinctive figure in Classical Music, maintained the Boston
>Symphony at an exquisite level for a quarter century, and left a legacy
>as vast and varied as Koussevitsky's could have been utterly incompetent.
>
>Is it because he married into money?

People leveled the same charge at Beecham, who was born into money. Silly,
isn't it?

Scott Morrison