Len Fehskens wrote, in response to Janos Gereben asks:

>>Indeed, are women ready to play music on a professional level?
>
>What could conceivably lead anyone to believe otherwise? There are more
>than enough examples of woman already playing "on a professional level"
>to answer this question.

Yup!  The last time i checked, Martha Argerich played on a 'professional
level', as does Anne-Sophie Mutter, and other child prodigies that have
followed her - indeed, too numerous to mention.

Gender-Exclusion -- shades of the Vienna Phil!

Regards,
...tony lee     <[log in to unmask]>