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- From: xilin@northstar.dartmouth.edu
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- Subject: Re: Ozawa
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.005502.26961@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 00:55:02 GMT
- References: <RLK.92Dec23095322@underprize.think.com> <CURTIS.92Dec23151026@sun1.aer.com> <1992Dec23.205028.3211@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec23.205028.3211@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> velde2@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Francois Velde) writes:
- >In article <CURTIS.92Dec23151026@sun1.aer.com> curtis@sun1.aer.com (Curtis Heisey) writes:
- >>
- >>My taste-related complaint is that Ozawa is just plain dull,
- >>especially in the Baroque/Early Classical repertoire, which too often
- >>sounds like a grind through of the notes.
- >>
- >>I do think that Ozawa does a good job with the contemporary repertoire,
- >>such as Saxton's *The Creation*. I must admit that I've only heard Ozawa
- >>when he leads the BSO, and I haven't heard the BSO on tour with Ozawa, so I
- >>can't judge Ozawa in his entirety as a conductor.
- >
- >I heard Ozawa (on the radio--too poor at the time) conducting several
- >Mahler symphonies in Paris about 10 years ago. If I remember right, there
- >was the Second, played in Saint-Denis (where our kings were buried: decent
- >republicans shuddered at the thought of an accident...). I have an awed
- >memory of Ozawa's direction, and kept the tape for a long time. It was
- >gigantic, violent, disheveled. But maybe today, with more years of Mahler
- >enjoyment behind me, I would think differently.
- >
- >And I *love* the way his hair flies around when he conducts :-)
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- >--
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- > Francois Velde
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- Everyone's hair can fly that way.
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