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- From: Frank.Panettiere@f2010.n391.z1.FidoNet.Org (Frank Panettiere)
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- Subject: RE: OZAWA
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- Date: 25 Dec 92 08:17:50 EST
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- > 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,
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- Could that one performance be just the result of the BSO's "institutional
- memory" of how the Symphonie Fantastique SHOULD be played? The "all time
- best performance" of the S. Fant. I ever heard was Pierre Monteux's with
- the BSO in the 1950's.
- Frank
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