Deryk Barker wrote:

>I know a chap who was in the 1950s Philharmonia and his take on all this
>(although he'd left by the time of the name change) was that it all started
>to go wrong during a tour of the US under Herbie the K.

That story is in Richard Osborne's biography of Karajan also, virtually
word for word.

Tony Duggan, England.
Mahler recordings survey:
http://www.musicweb.uk.net/Mahler/