Steve Schwartz: >His Mahler 4th is far better than any of Bernstein's goes. Details >provided on request. I have never been happy with the final movement of Bernstein's first (?) recording, even though I understand the rationale for the abrupt shifts; it just doesn't sound right compared to, say, Hohrenstein's ot Tennstedt's. I'd like to hear your reasons, though. >Furthermore, the NY Phil, while he was music director, generally hated >Bernstein. This doesn't square with my understanding, based on, admittedly limited, accounts from no later than Boulez' tenure there. The players were referred to as "Lenny's boys," and I never understood a double-entendre there. Jim