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Last month, Kurt Masur finished his second-to-the-last season with the New York Philharmonic; by this time next year, he will be gone-and that's a shame. Since he became music director in 1991, Masur has made this orchestra one of the mightiest in the world, restoring a glory that had been lost. Yet he has been grossly underappreciated here, by his own management, his own players, and the city's critics. They are giving him the bum's rush-a situation that is little less than perverse.
One forgets how bad the Philharmonic really was when Masur came to town; this forgetting, moreover, is part of the general ingratitude where this conductor is concerned. Under Zubin ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Mere Excellence.(unfairly-maligned conductor Kurt Masur to leave New...