Author: steve
Date: 1999-09-02 14:47
greg said
"When I mentioned the Cleveland Orchestra performance to Leinsdorf that I had heard from 20 years earlier, he said "Oh yes. It was just before a strike was to occur, the orchestra was in dire financial straits, and I told the audience after we had walked out on stage to rapturous applause that if they didn't support their musicians, there would probably soon be no Cleveland Orchestra to applaud!"
...Leinsdorf said "there will only be upright piano, no strings, no podium...please support your wonderful cleveland orchestra...." I seem to remember a Brahms 4 on that program, with more wonderful clarinet artistry...being young is wasted on young people...:)
mark...when you get the severance, please report to us about the acoustics....I attended concerts weekly in the 60's and early 70's, and the acoustics became my benchmark for all other halls...never equaled...I hope they preserved the remodeling...
(terminating nostalgia mode....)
s.
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