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/