Dan Dickstein wrote: >I have read on numerous occasions that Bernstein was the proud inheritor >of Koussevitsky's copy of the score for Le Sacre. I have also read that >this version had been rather severely reedited and renotated by Nicholas >Slonimsky because Koussevitsky couldn't make head or tail of the original. Actually, someone (can't recall who) had to rescore the entire Le Sacre because Koussie couldn't conduct in 5/8 and other such compound meters. It was rescored so he could do it all in a simple meter (4/4, I think). I feel sorry for the musicians!! >Assuming the Slonimsky story is true, was this the same score Bernstein >used in making the recording Stravinsky was so pleased with? Somehow I doubt it. I don't think Bernstein had any trouble conducting in compound or un-even meters. And he didn't have his father-in-law buy him a symphony, either! -Lindsey Orcutt [log in to unmask]