[Magdalen] Kurt Masur Dies.

[Grace Cangialosi]

LOL!
The Virginia Consort has baskets of cough drops at the doors for folks to take as they go into the concerts. I've always thought that was a brilliant idea!

> On Dec 26, 2015, at 12:05 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Who was it noted "The audience strummed their catarrhs"?
> 
>> On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
>> 
>> From: Cantor03--- via Magdalen
>> 
>> The famed Kapellmeister of  the Leipzig Gewarndhaus and Director of  the
>>> New York Philharmonic died yesterday at 88.  He was another victim  of
>>> Parkinson's.  He was a highly visible advocate of German  reunification.
>> 
>> Albert and I had season tickets for the first 5-6 years of Masur's reign
>> at the NY Philharmonic.  We went to all Choral and New Music programs --
>> and enjoyed them a lot.
>> 
>> We gave up, though, when the hall started sounding like a TB ward or maybe
>> a convention of people with bronchitis and smokers' cough. I remember one
>> concert when he actually stopped the music because the coughing was so
>> overwhelming.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Jim
>> 
>>