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norman lebrecht

January 20, 2015

The sporty side of Christian Thielemann.

You gonna tackle me?

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Alexander Hall says:

January 20, 2015 at 10:18 am

What about the ridiculous sight of Riccardo Muti in his baseball/soccer jersey or whatever it was? I’d have thought such an aristocratic musician would never have stooped so low. Mind you, even the great Lorin Maazel was not above dangling his bejewelled Rolex watches before our eyes in countless magazines.

Greg Hlatky says:

January 20, 2015 at 11:13 pm

So a conductor identifying with the orchestra’s community is now considered “stooping”? With attitudes like that it’s not surprising that classical music is vanishing in the public’s eye.

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- Alexander Hall says:
  
  January 21, 2015 at 9:48 am
  
  Some people never get irony, more’s the pity. The choice of “stoop” was quite deliberate: remember Oliver Goldsmith’s “She stoops to conquer”?
  
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