| I tell you, I'm just a "fan", but this stuff leaves me agast. I'm sure Osmo is 237 times the musician I could ever have dreamed of being (once), but I am one of the extended AUDIENCE, which perhaps has some status? I just think it is so completely trivial to be dicking with what trumpet is choosen by a world-class artist and, more to the point, world class principal in literature like this. And yes, I happen to think there IS some American tradition built up around Mahler and deservedly so (think Lenny B.). I really have to be suspicious about conductors who even go places like this in their mind, and wonder what if any real concept of the music they are bringing to the table, er, podium?
Manny and Co. will undoubtedly sound just as good no matter what they play on--which is kind of the point, isn't it? That is, it's pointLESS.
Yeah, I heard Cleveland playing Mahler 9 in the old days, and gee, if only Adlestein had used a rotary it would have been even so much better! And Wagner in Chicago with those awful Back Cs--should demand a refund on that one. If only Gil Johnson had played Blumine on a sidewinder, they might not have waited so long to re-release the CD everywhere but Japan. If only, if only.
Oh Osmo, please, I want to hear Copland's 3rd with rotaries, and his famous "Fanfare for the Common Burgermeister", too.
Sorry for the rant--somebody hose me down... |