Your favoirite WAM Sym # 29

Mine

1) Toscanini by a very large margin

2) Cantelli
3) Casals
4) Maag


Toscanini is playing a different piece than the other esteemed
Conductors. He found it well underneath the surface. You would not
believe the playing he gets from the Oboes and Horns.


Abbedd

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
- HL Mencken
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