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Jim Lee:
>What Mehta did bring to the orchestra was a higher profile through the
>marketing done about him.
I really don't think it was merely a question of marketing, although
marketing didn't hurt. I remember a fine Strauss recording, a pretty
good Tchaikovsky, and a lovely Bruckner 4. His Turandot isn't shabby
either. While Mehta may not be as great a Straussian as Szell or Reiner,
a Tchaikovskian as towering as Mravinsky, or a Brucknerian on the order
of Jochum, Tintner, or Furtwaengler, he's by no means a musical nebbish.
Somebody (I forget whom) just quoted "The good is the enemy of the great."
That seems to be what most anti-Mehtans have against him.
>What he also did was make some absolutely dreadful appointments, a process
>he repeated in NY.
Care to name names? Right now, at any rate, the NY Phil probably has one
of the greatest collections of individual players in the world.
Steve Schwartz
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