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Wilson Pereira wrote:
>I've just bought from Barnes & Noble a copy of Lebrecht's book "The Maestro
>Myth", and I've found his opinions extremely interesting. In what way
>Lebrecht is an idiot?
It is interesting if you are a tabloid devotee. Maestro Myth is the only
book that I have been tempted to return to the store in protest of content
in my 30-odd years of reading. It is trashy and at best repleat with
half-truths. I find it impossible to believe that that many conductors
were that evil. We aren't talking about congress here, we are talking
about artists. Lebrecht comes across as a petty, muckraking, sour grape
sucking wannabe who is furious with the world that he has only amassed
enough talent to trash the work of others instead of creating anything
worthwhile to say on his own. I am afraid that I would have to call into
question the common sense of anyone who takes him seriously.
Kevin Sutton, who, like James Svedja, has a healthy stack of degrees and
turns a faire hande at poetry.
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