by Charles Noble on December 19, 2008 · 4 comments
More responses are coming in to the original blog post that started the online bickering over whether or not Gilbert Kaplan is a charlatan or a conductor – sometimes I ask myself, what’s the difference? – here’s a sampling:
At A Musical Rampage we get the opinion that Kaplan might not be a real [...]
by Charles Noble on December 18, 2008 · 1 comment
Norman Lebrecht has weighed in with his opinion of the blog post by the New York Philharmonic’s bass second trombonist David Finlayson which expressed in no uncertain terms Finlayson’s low regard for the conducting prowess and musical fitness of amateur conductor Gilbert Kaplan.
Read the Lebrecht posting and digest your initial reaction for a bit – [...]