Lionel Choi wrote: >From what I've heard and seen, basically, in concerts, he (Mehta) just >takes that platonic, brain-dead, autopilot music-making he seems to >produce in the studio and pumps in gloss, glamour, volume, rougher tuttis, >and a large dose of very flashy, very sweaty physical gestures that far >too many people too commonly mistake for the mark of a great conductor. I agree with Lionel. There is something infuriating about the way Mehta - for all his technical accomplishment - reduces everything he conducts to banality. The surface excitements are mere musical condiments. Whether it's Tristan und Isolde, a Beethoven Symphony, Shostakovitch or Mozart, there's the same lack of any engagement with the music beyond baton waving to keep things together and sounding nice. FWIW I think the Man in the Moon is more likely to be offered the Berlin job than Mehta. But time will tell.... Cheers Richard Davies