[78-L] Mutter 1, Gershwin 0

[JD]

I applaud the astute comments of the few here who did not appoint themselves 
music critics without portfolio and were able to consider what the true 
problems may have been with this unfortunate outing. As I watched the 
playback on my DVR I couldn't believe what I was hearing and didn't even try 
to come up with an explanation other than something went seriously amiss or 
I was still asleep.  One thing is certain, however and beyond argument as 
far as I and a great many musicians are concerned, Mutter and Previn are 
both world class musicians and classical violin playing doesn't get a hell 
of a lot better that with ASM.

As a veteran of many bandstands, stages and studios I am well aware of the 
multitude of things that can go wrong before even mentioning lousy or 
non-existent acoustics. For a show that seems dedicated to endlessly 
featuring the worst of today's cretins and their noise making hostilities 
which all too many consider music it's an insult to place the class acts at 
the end of the show where time may have run short and many viewers are 
already out of it. I can well imagine a stage manager saying, "Sorry, Annie 
& Andre, we're running over, you'll have to speed it up"...on a set where 
they probably can't hear one another. Better that the cretins and their crap 
be at the end of the show to wake up the dead, sleeping and tone-deaf.
Jack Daney