Eric Nagamine wrote: >Like just about every other conductor out there today, he has his strong >points and weaknesses. I once saw him at Royal Festival Hall when he >was Principal Conductor of the LPO. It was the worst concert I've ever >attended; poorly prepared and poorly played. He really seemed like he was >just sight reading Tristan and Isolde. Got so bad that I left after the >2nd act. It seemed like he was using the LPO to learn the score for an >opera house gig. I wonder whether that was the same performance Martin Feinstein (former General Director of the Washington Opera) described at a meeting of the Wagner Society of Washington as having attended w/ his wife about two and a half years ago, which they thought so bad, they left after the second act. In the summer of 1994 my wife and I heard Welser-Moest conduct *Peter Grimes* at Glyndebourne for which we had managed to get tickets through the good offices of a friend on the Internet, which I enjoyed very much. But then, I'm easy to please, and merely being at Glyndebourne may have overwhelmed me. Walter Meyer