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The Boston Symphony was honed and polished by the Russian exile Serge Koussevitsky, who conducted 100 concerts a year for 25 years until 1949 and was midwife to the creation of great works by Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Copland.
Not only did it promote freedom "more than any statesman or soldier did" by creating CNN, faxes, and e-mail, but furthermore, Einstein's theory of "relativity paved the way for a new relativism in morality, arts and politics," influencing James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, and others.
Advancing example after example, measuring reputations--those of composers Roger Sessions and Elliott Carter, say, against those of Stravinsky and Schoenberg--Steiner insists that America has produced very little that can stand up to the intellectual or artistic achievements of Europe.
If Wagner's operas can be excerpted for concert performance, and Stravinsky's ballet scores have a life of their own, why can't the soundtrack jettison its celluloid ballast and soar?
Entertainment Weekly 's David Browne calls the album "a sonic smorgasbord in which the Beasties gorge themselves with reckless abandon," sampling everything from Stravinsky to Tito Puente.