'There's Something Bottomless About It' - Robert Spano on Conducting Wagner's Ring

the symphony has really improved (I think) under Gerard Schwartz...I don't think it was the quality of the playing or the acoustics in the hall (originally built for the World's Fair I believe and probably gone now) but rather Walton's music that drove so many away - I like it myself - loud, brassy, in turn dark and brilliant - but I think a lot of the crowd found it maybe too grandiose and "avant garde"...

Schwarz is good - I've got his disc with the Seattle of Hanson's Symphonies #'s 1 and 2 (music used at the end of "Alien") - won several awards if I remember rightly....

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