Dan Dickstein wrote:

>I have read on numerous occasions that Bernstein was the proud inheritor
>of Koussevitsky's copy of the score for Le Sacre.  I have also read that
>this version had been rather severely reedited and renotated by Nicholas
>Slonimsky because Koussevitsky couldn't make head or tail of the original.

The story I recall was that Slonimsky rebarred the piece so it would be
easier to conduct.  If my recollection serves me right, Slonimsky refers
to that point in his autobiography while mentioning an encounter with
Bernstein who mentioned that he was still using the score which Slonimsky
had edited.

>Assuming the Slonimsky story is true, was this the same score Bernstein
>used in making the recording Stravinsky was so pleased with?

I would assume so.

Karl