In Reply to: Oops that should been LVB #3. posted by sjb on April 10, 2007 at 21:24:54:
That old thread had this:"Though he is largely forgotten and never got much press, I also think that Alfred Wallenstein also was a superb conductor."
We've been considering Salonen right here, right now. Once he leaves the conducting business, there's a chance he "just goes into oblivion" as a contemporary composer, barely to be seen or heard from again. Most living Classical composers, although they've gotta eat, would have to be a little nuts to think that they will ever be "icons" or whatever at the level of Sibelius. Such pretentions do not gel with reality.
Will Salonen be comfortable out of the limelight? Who knows? NY beckons in a few years, potentially.
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- VERY interesting... - SE 04:35:00 04/11/07 (0)