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| | LA Daily News - Entertainment |
 | | Sure, thanks to Esa-Pekka Salonen's years of hard work, the playing was technically improved from what some wags like to call the bad old days. |
 | | The brasses sound fuller but less focused than under Salonen, and the string choirs were more fully blended, and less distinctive, than when the present music director conducts. |
 | | The most striking thing about the performance, however, wasn't Mehta's broad, untamed conception of the piece, but rather his sorcererlike ability to transform the Philharmonic of today into the Philharmonic of yesteryear. |
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