I remember Steinberg from his days as reviewer for the Boston Globe. He was famous for his (to me) meretricious vitriol. Once, for example, when Carlo Maria Guilini guest conducted the Boston Symphony, he compared his conducting to to the way Groucho Marx might have lead the orchestra. The players tried to have him declared persona non grata, but things were smoothed over. Allan Kohrman Newton, MA *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html