> > On Nov 3, 11:24 am, GT <stopandthin...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > Schlueter definately had a sound I've never heard from anyone else and
> > > I guess you hate it or love it and Ozawa seemed to hate it.>>

> > then why did he grant him tenure?? then try to fire him?? Ozawa
> > definitely has had problems in this area of "personnel relations" -
> > major problem with SFSO, and then several more in Boston.

> > <<Ozawa must have been quite happy to see Schueter was gone when he
> > came to

> > > guest conduct last year.  >>

> > It is my understanding that in Schlueter's last couple of seasons he
> > did not play when Levine conducted....was there a history between
> > those two as well??....I heard the BSO several times during that
> > period - Schlueter played for other conductors, but not when Levine
> > conducted...

> In that Vineland book they said Ozawa thought his audition was
> "perfect" but his playing started diminishing when he got the job.  I
> think Ozawa just didn't know what he wanted.  As for Levine, I have no
> idea if there is something between those two.  I heard that Schlueter
> didn't like all the new music Levine programmed but I don't know why
> he wouldn't play for the traditional pieces...