Richard Pennycuick wrote: >I remember a kerfuffle some years ago - it may have been as long ago >as the late 80s - concerning Barenboim's wanting to conduct Wagner in >Israel, which caused me to write a letter to an editor, but I'm unable >to find it. ... Last year, Garrison Keillor's "Prairie Home Companion" did a program honoring the Minnesota Orchestra's 100th anniversary. During the course of the presentation, the orchestra performed the Prelude to "Die Meistersinger", one of the staples of the symphonic repertoire. The thought crossed my mind that there might have been persons in the audience who take great exception to Wagner in any form...I wondered if there was any kind of promotion, like in the program booklet if they had one (I've been to a P.H.C. broadcast and there wasn't one then), giving people so disposed a warning that Wagner was coming up? Laurence Glavin Methuen, MA