Dan Dickstein wrote: >I've always wondered how people can maintain the notion that anyone who >cut such a distinctive figure in Classical Music, maintained the Boston >Symphony at an exquisite level for a quarter century, and left a legacy >as vast and varied as Koussevitsky's could have been utterly incompetent. > >Is it because he married into money? Could be that, or perhaps because his first father-in-law bought him a symphony in Russia to "practice" on. I've always been a bit amused by that. Those things aside, though, I've enjoyed all the Koussie recordings I've heard (and there aren't many out there, sadly). His "Pictures at an Exhibition" is phenomenal. -Lindsey Orcutt [log in to unmask]