Mark Seeley writes:
>Funny he should mention that when I am boarding a plane in a few days to
>hear the Cleveland Orchestra perform the Ninth.
Well, Mark, what did you think. We heard this in Cleveland a couple
of weks ago and it was superb. Under CvD, the music is a sad and rueful
farewell to life, sometimes bitter, but certainly not despairing. The same
could be said of his Das Lied von der Erde a couple of weeks prior to that.
Thew conductor's sense of balance and the orchestra's pristine clarity let
the music speak for itself. It says a lot.
Eric Kisch