Gratitude, and Giving
My old friend Irving Kolodin gave my Tschaikowsky recording a bad review in the Saturday Review, of which he is musical editor. Later he called me up in California and asked, "Is there anything I can do for you?"
"Yeah," I said, "give me a good review of the Tschaikowsky."
He never did.
On one of my recent trips to New York, I had dinner with Irving and hi…