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- From: bcc@tools8teradata.com (Brian Cantin)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
- Subject: Re: Harnoncourt and Svedja
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- Date: 24 Dec 92 21:48:45 GMT
- References: <Dec18.182047.62365@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1gtlk3INNdnd@gap.caltech.edu>
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- In article <1gtlk3INNdnd@gap.caltech.edu>, rmw@cco.caltech.edu (Richard M. Wilson) writes:
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- |> In article <Dec18.182047.62365@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> hurben@lamar.ColoState.E
- |> DU (Mike Hurben) writes:
- |> > This also brings up the question of what to think of JS.
- |>
- |> IMHO, Nikolaus Harnoncourt is a genius. I don't like everything he
- |> does, but he has impressed me with his insights over and over again.
- |>
- |> One of the reasons that I stopped subscribing to KUSC here in LA is Jim
- |> Svedja. He is interesting to listen to in moderation, but when he came
- |> to be in charge of the early evening program, my favorite listening
- |> time, that was it; I don't listen to KUSC anymore. I can't imagine
- |> anyone with taste that is more different than mine. For example, when
- |> he deigns to play Baroque music or Mozart at all, it seems always to be from
- |> recordings made in the 60s.
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- The evening program that Sveda puts on KUSC is one of few rays of intelligence to found on the radio.
- He plays many recordings from the sixties because he recognizes that most of the centuries great conductors
- were dead by the mid-seventies (Walter, Reiner, Barbirolli, Klemperor, Ansermet, Krips).
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- Brian Cantin
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