Do any of you read this magazine?
Vey highly recommended, however when they published the "twenty greatest orchestras in the world” last month, I noticed immediately a glaring error of judgment and emailed the editor as follows…..
"I have just received your invariably excellent magazine - the postal highlight of the month
However on this particular occasion I am left bemused and bewildered - the top twenty orchestras of the globe and not including the London Philharmonic? - not even a mention? I would suggest that your reviewer repairs immediately to the South Bank in London and catches some of the marvellous treats that Maestro Vladimir Jurowski and his 'A' band of supremely talented players are wowing packed houses with (for example the very highly regarded recently completed Tchaikovsky season)
To put the undeniably talented and properly placed London Symphony and the LPO side by side at number 4 would be worth contemplating, but to exclude the latter with not even a mention in small print strikes me as an omission bordering on the criminal
Yours in good faith
Tony Hearne”
I had hoped that this would be posted in this months mag but no such luck
OK I am biased as I live ‘South of the Water’ as we say and work right by the RFH and have friends who are in the orchestra, but really… I am sure that Sir Thomas Beecham would have had some witty riposte to these cheeky young reviewers!!
Vey highly recommended, however when they published the "twenty greatest orchestras in the world” last month, I noticed immediately a glaring error of judgment and emailed the editor as follows…..
"I have just received your invariably excellent magazine - the postal highlight of the month
However on this particular occasion I am left bemused and bewildered - the top twenty orchestras of the globe and not including the London Philharmonic? - not even a mention? I would suggest that your reviewer repairs immediately to the South Bank in London and catches some of the marvellous treats that Maestro Vladimir Jurowski and his 'A' band of supremely talented players are wowing packed houses with (for example the very highly regarded recently completed Tchaikovsky season)
To put the undeniably talented and properly placed London Symphony and the LPO side by side at number 4 would be worth contemplating, but to exclude the latter with not even a mention in small print strikes me as an omission bordering on the criminal
Yours in good faith
Tony Hearne”
I had hoped that this would be posted in this months mag but no such luck
OK I am biased as I live ‘South of the Water’ as we say and work right by the RFH and have friends who are in the orchestra, but really… I am sure that Sir Thomas Beecham would have had some witty riposte to these cheeky young reviewers!!
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