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- LETTERS, Page 6New Conductors
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- Music critic Michael Walsh practically salivates at the
- idea of replacing renowned maestros, or "gerontocrats" as he
- calls them, with young conductors imbued with a penchant for
- modern music (MUSIC, Oct. 30). Walsh should know better. The
- vast majority of listeners detest the modern repertory. Who
- today knows the names or the works of modern composers? Not
- many. The only way conductors can get us to listen to modern
- pieces is by force-feeding us, i.e., by sandwiching them between
- the classical works. If they placed new compositions at the end
- of a concert, maestros would perform the finale to empty halls.
- Let the small minority who like modern music have their own
- concerts and not impose their taste on the rest of us.
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- Eugene D. Reed Pebble Beach, Calif.
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