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… the barbarism of broadcasts industry takes over. I found the Levine’s Saturday play was very good very good, even those I am not as exuberant as Clark is about it. I like what Levine BSO did but I would like to have it more fundamental and more Mozart-tragic if you will. Levine played it more recreational then I would like. I understand that it is Mozart not Shostakovich but I am saying what I would like to hear… Also, I agree that BSO is not equipped to play Mozart in “dramatic” way; they are too dry and too institutionalized. I think if you hear it again then you will hear a lot of what I do not like. I record it and I might give it to you to re-listen (there were a lot of technical problem with BSO play as well).

Ok, now back to my bitching about the barbarism of broadcasts industry. The Levine’s play on that Saturday was an event. And the WCRB was the ONLY station that cares this even live. Unless the BSO decide to release it publicly the Levine’s take on the Mozart’s 39, 40 and 41 symphonies will be lost for good for most of the audiences. The WCRB live broadcast was the only one window that make wide public to hear that play. So, I am taking about the responsibility of WCRB as a medium for the preservation of important Boston cultural event. If you are a diamond cuter and you cut a 500 carats stone then you would be careful do not screw it up. The WCRB kept running their barbaric compression during the broadcast, pleasing the car listeners in South Massachusetts drive-in McDonalds. Very sad…

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