David Harbin:

>Does anyone ever wonder why there are so few front rank US orchestra's
>recording US symphonies?  Are they not interested in their own music in
>the way they seem to record Mahler, Bruckner etc?  For example, one of
>the greatest US violin concertos is Piston's No1.  However the only
>recording is by an orchestra in the Ukraine!  Why aren't The Cleveland,
>Philhadelphia, NY Phil etc putting these onto CD?  Better yet, why not
>record a series and sell at at superbudget prices like LSO Live?

American orchestras have priced themselves out of the recording market,
basically and thus record only sure-fire sellers, and damn few of them
these days. Thank god Naxos can find SOMEONE to record all the stuff in
their American Classics series. Theodore Kuchar, btw, who is the conductor
of the Ukraine orchestra, is an American.

Scott Morrison