Ramon Khalona wrote: [excerpted]

>Papa (Erich) used to say that he liked going to other conductors' concerts
>because if they conducted well he was happy for them, but if they didn't he
>was even happier.  In addition to being great conductors, the Kleibers have
>been rare birds because the power game seems not to have been their game.

The same mal mots were attributed to Weingartner, I am told....

Re Carlos K's exclusion from the Great Conductors videos: it is a very
generous consolation that one can [or at least could] see him weave his
spell in the incredible Concertgebouw Beethoven 4 & 7 video, as well as
in a Munich Fledermaus...

Joel Lazar
Bethesda MD