Aaron Rabuska writes: >As far as recordings go Comissiona recorded Pettersson's 8th Symphony, for >DG with the Baltimore SO. Actually, he recorded it for Polar - DG was good enough to take that recording up for wider distribution. (And of course he recorded Pettersson's 9th, dedicated to him, with the Concertgebow on Phillips - a vastly different reading than the one currently available on cpo.) Jon Johanning writes: >Seriously, though, the neglect of Pettersson on these shores is pathetic. I couldn't agree more. >Perhaps we can use this list, and the North American Pettersson fans on it, >to get a groundswell started to induce more performances. Most folks here will tell you they wish I'd shut up....... >One problem may be that his personal life and political views don't >exactly mesh with the standard American image of a musical hero--Beethoven, >Mozart, etc. I don't know about THAT. Here is a classic Horatio Alger story - the son of an alcoholic wife-beater who buys his first violin with money from selling postcards, works his way through an elitist school, wins the Jenny Lind prize, composes 16 large-scale symphonies, and goes on to international, uh, neglect. Hmmm. Mark [log in to unmask]