Tim Dickinson wrote:

>Bruckner was eliminated earlier by Mahler in the Austrian Composers
>Conference (ACC) championship playoff.  The score was decisive, but there
>were several controversial penalties that influenced the outcome.  It seems
>that the Brucknerians had trouble deciding which version of each symphony
>to send into the contest and they were repeatedly flagged for delay of
>game.

Now just a fruitcake pickin' minute.  (Fruitcake.  Ugh.) That was fixed.
Bruckner wrote a 0 and a 00 symphony.  Mahler wrote 4 before the official
No.  1 (as I understand it).  Mahler was allowed to throw his out, probably
because they were inferior to Bruckner's two, which should have counted.
Would have changed the score too.

>Sibelius went down prior to the finals, due in part to forfeiting a couple
>of matches as he simply didn't write enough symphonies to fullfill the
>lifetime standard of nine.  And he has noone to blame but himself, having
>lived 34 years after composing his seventh.

At least he didn't need help finishing his last.

Roger Hecht