I’m back in Chicago after a wonderful working vacation at the Grand Teton Music Festival and am in the process of getting my head above the sea of emails, voice messages and the rest. As such, today’s post is a quick link over to a fascinating series of videos from 1969 at the WGBH website titled Tanglewood Tales: The Leinsdorf Exit Interview. It is fun to see the predictions juxtaposed against how things actually changed.
And speaking of exit interviews, that’s a topic I’ve been meaning to examine so stay tuned.
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Enjoyed all three interviews, with some major prophetic stuff in there. Also thrilled to learn today that my first experience ever of hearing a performance of Beethoven’s 9th was, in fact, that August 1969 final Leinsdorf (televised) concert as MD. Wasn’t aware of that age sixteen. Hell, I didn’t even know who Leinsdorf was, but I certainly recognized the Huntley-Brinkley Report. (That night changed my life forever, BTW.)
Enjoyed all three interviews, with some major prophetic stuff in there. Also thrilled to learn today that my first experience ever of hearing a performance of Beethoven’s 9th was, in fact, that August 1969 final Leinsdorf (televised) concert as MD. Wasn’t aware of that age sixteen. Hell, I didn’t even know who Leinsdorf was, but I certainly recognized the Huntley-Brinkley Report. (That night changed my life forever, BTW.)