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