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?

Could be that, or perhaps because his first father-in-law bought him a
symphony in Russia to "practice" on.  I've always been a bit amused by
that.  Those things aside, though, I've enjoyed all the Koussie recordings
I've heard (and there aren't many out there, sadly).  His "Pictures at an
Exhibition" is phenomenal.

-Lindsey Orcutt
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