Dick Claeys writes:

>... from my days in New England I remember that Steinberg's Globe
> review compared Giulini's conducting to Danny Kaye--not Groucho.  That
>was during the time that Danny Kaye was guest-conducting a number of
>benefit concerts for various symphony orchestras and exaggerating all
>kinds of podium antics. But the negative reaction of the players--who
>revered this guest conductor--is most accurate.

All these bad feelings did not prevent Steinberg from taking the position
of program annotator for the BSO for the period 1974-77, after which he
filled the same position at the San Francisco Symphony for twenty years.
These program notes form the basis for his two excellent collections of
essays," The Symphony" and "The Concerto", published by Oxford University
Press.

Bernard Chasan

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