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<4a26c1ae-1fc1-4eb7-afd8-909ca37ef3fd@y31g2000prd.googlegroups.com>, td
<tomdedeacon@mac.com> wrote:
> On Mar 27, 7:15?pm, O <ow...@denofinequityx.com> wrote:
> > In article
> > <ccc4cf22-b62a-41f2-a53a-19335c9de...@18g2000prd.googlegroups.com>, 3Bs
> >
> > <threebs...@aol.com> wrote:
> > > While admittedly fairly pointless, it is fun to speculate on the next
> > > MD of the BSO. I was just reading an article at Boston.com that listed
> > > Chailly, Jansons, MTT and Spano as "names likely to be heard" in
> > > ongoing considerations. To me, that's a laughable list, the idea that
> > > Jansons would want a third orchestra, or that the BSO would see him as
> > > a good fit. Chailly I can't imagine, either- I hope he just stays in
> > > Leipzig forever and keeps making more great recordings. MTT would be
> > > foolish to upset his life- he can stay in SF until he dies (and may he
> > > live long) and everyone will be happy because he's perfect there.
> >
> > I think it all depends on whether MTT wants to spend the rest of his
> > life in SF. ?Is he content to let his current position be the summit of
> > his career, or does he look for something bigger? ?Maybe tomorrow it's
> > Boston, maybe in five years Vienna? ?(I think MTT would be a good fit
> > in Vienna, because he's so Bernsteinian.)
>
> Yes, but there is just one small problem: he's Jewish and they already
> had Maazel there and that really didn't work, you know. Good for a
> visit, but please don't make this your home.
They had Bernstein there and they loved him, but then again, he didn't
live with them.
>
> Maazel was miserable in Vienna, despite Demel's, the Imperial Hotel,
> and the proximity to Salzburg.
>
> Boston would be a perfect fit for MTT. He would love the Tanglewood
> thing, teaching all those ambitious students like him when he was 30
> years younger, and all that.
I always thought it was, even when he was here under Steinberg. And
regardless of the success of the SFSO, there still is a cachet about
the BSO.
>
> Rattle was the fish the BSO was trying to catch. Ozawa knew it and
> stayed until Rattle took Berlin and a few weeks later decided to
> leave. Ozawa did NOT want to have his tenure upstaged by some young
> British punk with talent.
I really don't understand why Ozawa had so much pull, especially in the
latter years when the orchestra pretty much dropped a dime on him to
the newspapers.
> Now it is probably too late to get Rattle. After Berlin, Boston
> becomes impossible.
Only if Berlin likes Rattle and Rattle likes Berlin.
> But then look at Muti. After Philadelphia nobody
> thought he would be back. Then all of a sudden both Chicago and New
> York were hot to trot for him. Chicago won out, but did they really,
> in the end, I mean? Not much has happened so far, and what is this,
> his second season? Or still the first?
Chicago so far has won as much as Boston did with Levine.
-Owen