> On Jun 13, 2:52�pm, Kerrison yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>> On 13 Jun, 19:44, Andrew Rose pristineaudio.com> wrote:

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>>> Andrew Rose wrote:

>>>> Only once did Toscanini programme an all-Debussy concert

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>> Quote: "Toscanini met Debussy for the first time in Paris in 1910, and
>> later corresponded with him on a number of occasions - including
>> asking for - and gaining - permission from the composer to adjust
>> aspects of the orchestration in La Mer with doublings and rebalancings
>> in order to improve the clarity of sound, particularly in the inner
>> voices. "

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>> Could you please supply precise chapter and verse as to this
>> correspondence in the form of hard and fast evidence: that is to say,
>> the dates they corresponded, (day/month/year), and also exactly where
>> this actual correspondence can be seen or found. Additionally, if you
>> have photocopies in your own collection which you are citing here,
>> please let us know where you obtained them and from whom. Thanks.

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>   I assume that Andrew excerpted that from "The Letters of Arturo
> Toscanini compiled, edited, and translated by Harvey Sachs" (Alfred A.
> Knopf, New York, 2002). I have just looked at my copy's index; there
> are many, many entries about Toscanini and Debussy. I haven't had time
> to look up all of them. Regardless, I remember reading those words by
> Toscanini in Sachs's book.
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>   I'm sure that Andrew Rose will reply on his own.
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>   The book is of inestimable importance and should be purchased and
> read by anyone interested in this great musician and complicated, even
> tormented, man (Toscanini). I'll bet that you'd like Sachs's book a
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