Desperate PRs seek support for Rattle’s vanity hall

Desperate PRs seek support for Rattle’s vanity hall

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norman lebrecht

February 19, 2016

The London Evening Standard, once a well-informed newspaper runs the following headline:

Trust Sir Simon Rattle over new £278m concert hall, says top conductor

Now who could that be? Thielemann, Mehta, Barenboim, Nelsons, Dudamel, Muti, Chailly?

No, it’s Yuri Bashmet, the violist, whose activities as a conductor are confined largely to his own ensemble.

The report continuesMr Bashmet, who, along with recently departed LSO head Valery Gergiev, is regarded as one of the two best conductors in Russia, said the Barbican, Festival Hall and Royal Albert Hall were “very good”, but that all great cities needed to “think of the future”.

The interns have taken over the asylum. And the PRs are spinning them like mad.

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Rattle’s proposed site

Comments

  • Eddie Mars says:

    [[ who, along with recently departed LSO head Valery Gergiev, is regarded as one of the two best conductors in Russia ]]

    Well, that will come as news to Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Yuri Simonov, Yuri Temirkanov, Teodor Currentzis, D Jurowsky, Jan Latham-Koenig, Vladimir Ponkin, Felix Korobov, and many others…

  • Halldor says:

    The real nonsense here is saying that the RFH, Barbican and RAH are ‘very good’.

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