[lbo-talk] Happy Birthday Mozart

[Scissors MacGillicutty]

Thanks for the recommendation.  I read Lebrecht's Maestro Myth a while
back and found it illuminating, if disturbing and depressing.  Pretty
much answered for me the question of why all orchestras sound the same
these days.  Great dish in it, too (Kossevitsky and Bernstein had to
conduct Stravinsky's Sarce du Primtemps from a simplified score by
Nicholas Slominsky?  Who knew!)

smg.

On 1/27/06, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:


> Been reading Who Killed Classical Music?: Maestros,
> Managers, and Corporate Politics, Norman Lebrecht,
> great fun in a bitter sort of way, takes the high
> toned air out of the classical music biz and puts the
> biz back in, corporate powerr plays, sleaze, greedy
> agents, predatory and arrogant managers, record execs
> who car only about money, an ugly star system,
> favoritism, lazy conductors and an engine designed to
> take all the fun out of classical music. About what
> you'd expect, but with the details.