Dear Mahler,

Went to pay my usual tribute to you at a BSO concert in Strathmore Saturday Night and dragged La Tomasik with me. We even snuck up to the front row for your seventh symphony (tickets there probably cost $250, but because my old student card hasn't worn out I can get in for one twenty-fifth that amount.). But you let me down, seriously dude. Your Bach arrangements are just Bach with an enormous orchestra. And Mahler 7 is the longest piece in the world without a superb performance. Your stock is not going to survive this double anniversary, and a lot of people are going to conclude you're overexposed. Maybe you are but we still love you.

kthxbye,

Evan


(now that's more like it....Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra...nobody does the Later Symphonies better than Claudio.)