Juozas Rimas ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>>The following text is not meant to be politically incorect.  I've been
>>told several times that Japenese are not able to play classical music
>>properly (?) because they can't have the cultural experience of the
>>West.

Deryk Barker writes:

>Right.  I suggest the next time someone tells you this, you ask if they've
>ever heard Takashi Asahina conducting the Osaka PO in Bruckner.

Or Horoshi Wakasugi and the Saarbrucken Radio Symphony in Bruckner.

Thomas Heilman