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My Impression that Ch'en deeply resents Kirchner was based on his characterization of Kirchner as "an egomaniac," and his description of a series of Kirchner, directed concerts as "just hacking it through," as well as the quotation that I used in my article. As Ch'em knows, I made a tape recording of our whole conversation. I will be glad to let him hear that tape to verify the accuracy of any quotation in the article.