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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: Greatest Conductors: Why?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.173953.731@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:39:53 GMT
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- rwh@visual.com (Rob Holzel) writes:
- : Brian Haag writes:
- :
- : > I would
- : >say that Bernstein ranks as one of my favorite conductors for those moments
- : >when he creates an incredible electricity.
- :
- : And I'd say I agree entirely. Your caveat, naming "those moments when
- : he creates an incredible electricity," is a wise on. But I can honestly
- : say that, to me, those "incredible moments" make it worth sifting through
- : some of those times when his approach misses the mark. When he's on-target,
- : he's really "on".
- [....]
- : magical. As are the Ives Second, the Copland Third, the Mahler Fifth,
- : Mahler First, and on and on.... Someday I hope to indulge myself with
- : his BSO Mahler Ninth. I first have to be able to justify owning a third
- : copy of that work, though.
-
- No justification required. I own 17 versions....{
- :
- : There are occasional misses, too, like the DG Sibelius Second -- that
- : just didn't jell for me.
-
- Not to mention that hideous 1968 Symphonie Fantastique.
-
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- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
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