Gramophone June 2008, pg. 107

[mn dave]

That picture of Munch is priceless. It just cracks me up. Is that on the Internet anywhere?

[ezodisy]

just checking Gramophone.co.uk. Why'd they put a picture of a typical English housewife on the cover of the mag?

[mn dave]

Holy crap. They sure doll her up for CD photos.

[mn dave]

Well, I found one of Maestro Munch being rather rude.

[Brian]

Scan please! 

[Lethevich]

Finally found a use for my friend's scanner



Link to the substantially huger (yet still not original resolution) file.

[mn dave]

I just learn how to use my scanner and Lethe beats me to it. 

[Iago]

I knew Charles Munch personally, having worked at Tanglewood for several summers.
He was gentleness personified, with a curmudgeons sense of humor. Everybody LOVED him from the lowliest workers to the accomplished first desk players in the orchestra. His genius as a conductor goes without saying, and his regard for other people was unsurpassed. He was extremely animated when on the podium and often grimaced, smiled, exhorted, and used facial expressions which many times were uncategorized and indescribable.
He was a great human bring, and no picture of him should evoke laughter.

[mn dave]

I knew Charles Munch personally, having worked at Tanglewood for several summers.
He was gentleness personified, with a curmudgeons sense of humor. Everybody LOVED him from the lowliest workers to the accomplished first desk players in the orchestra. His genius as a conductor goes without saying, and his regard for other people was unsurpassed. He was extremely animated when on the podium and often grimaced, smiled, exhorted, and used facial expressions which many times were uncategorized and indescribable.
He was a great human bring, and no picture of him should evoke laughter.

Oh, c'mon. He had to be trying to crack someone up with that one.

[The new erato]

I knew Charles Munch personally, having worked at Tanglewood for several summers.
He was gentleness personified, with a curmudgeons sense of humor. Everybody LOVED him from the lowliest workers to the accomplished first desk players in the orchestra. His genius as a conductor goes without saying, and his regard for other people was unsurpassed. He was extremely animated when on the podium and often grimaced, smiled, exhorted, and used facial expressions which many times were uncategorized and indescribable.
He was a great human bring, and no picture of him should evoke laughter.

Nothing like being married to the heiress to the Nestle empire for evoking a good mood and gentle disposition.

Joke aside, plenty of rich people are plain nasty. And Munchs personality is mirrored in his music making I think.