Re: Barenboim's CSO farewell


david7gable@xxxxxxx wrote:

The title is the sort of honorarium granted on such
occasions and forgotten soon thereafter . . . except by CSO publicists
who will continue to list Barenboim as Honorary Conductor for Life in
subscription brochures as yet one more flower in the CSO's cap.

If the title means nothing (except for a political gimmick), why award
it?
I certainly hope this is not the kind of deal that Mehta got with the
IPO.
How is this a flower in the CSO's cap? The Barenboim era, when enough
time passes,
will be seen as an era of wasted opportunities for the CSO.
The good news is that he is gone, but this came sixteen years too late.

RK

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