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- From: curtis@sun1.aer.com (Curtis Heisey)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
- Subject: Re: Ozawa
- Message-ID: <CURTIS.92Dec23074412@sun1.aer.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 12:44:12 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.161553.13214@visual.com> <1992Dec22.211008.4569@nosc.mil>
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- Organization: Atmospheric Environmental Research Inc., Cambridge, MA USA
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- In-Reply-To: sampson@nosc.mil's message of Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:10:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.211008.4569@nosc.mil> sampson@nosc.mil (Charles H. Sampson) writes:
-
- In a recent thread on Greatest Living Conductors, one respondent
- placed Ozawa near the very bottom of his list.
-
- I have to agree also. In the five seasons that I've been attending BSO
- concerts, I must admit that I prefer guest conductors to that of
- Ozawa. Ozawa, in my opin, hasn't rallied the potential that the BSO
- exhibits. Many members are exceptional players, but the ensemble
- playing under Ozawa's hand just doesn't measure up to many of the
- other US orchestras. The man doesn't even live in Boston ... he
- commutes from Japan. In all fairness, I did hear him conduct a
- wonderful, sensitive, firey Berlioz *Symphonie Fantastique* once, but
- I've heard some real lemons, like Haydn's *The Seasons*. I think it
- is past time that Ozawa terminate his two decade tenure, and turn the
- orchestra over to someone else, before this wondeful orchestra is
- totally trashed.
-
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- Curt Heisey curtis@aer.com
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