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Ut-terly brilliant

Editor,

Ut, motherf#$%ing Ut!

Thanks for “spreading it about a bit” (Record Reviews, Vol.42 No.9). We don’t all want to listen to the 15th reissue of DSOTM or a Diana Krall album on our rigs. I reviewed Ut’s first album back in the mid ‘80s for a fanzine I put out. Loved ‘em ever since.

—Mark Turrell El Cerrito, CA

The Maestro’s missing magic music

Editor,

Your thoughtful response to Eric Groves’s letter in the September issue brought back a memory from very long ago. In the 1960s, a journalist for a hi-fi magazine was interviewing famous conductor and composer Dimitri Mitropoulos and noticed that the Maestro’s music system was an early KLH suitcase model. He asked how Mitropoulos could possibly listen to his orchestral recordings on such a limited device. The Maestro replied that when listening to any recording, he had to supply so much from his mind that whether it was a bit less or a bit more didn’t really matter!

And music is magic! My now–89-year-old ears,