Tony Duggan <[log in to unmask]> writes: >From UPI > >CLEVELAND, June 7 (UPI) -- Austrian conductor Franz Welser-Most will >succeed Christoph von Dohnanyi as the Cleveland Orchestra's music >director in 2002. What a dreadful choice to lead such a fine orchestra! I still remember the lifeless rendition of the "Eroica" he did with the LA Phil some years ago. It was so bad I will never again attend a concert with him as the conductor. (The fact that he ignored the repeats was only one dismal aspect of that awful performance-- not that I want to reopen that thread.) Surely there must have been someone better who could have taken the lead of the Clevelanders. Then again, perhaps all the wind-up monkeys were otherwise engaged. Jocelyn Wang Culver Chamber Music Series www.geocities.com/Vienna/strasse/4684