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