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In Reply to: RE: My Five Favorite Conductors on Vinyl posted by SgreenP@MSN.com on October 5, 2015 at 13:09:05:
My late wife went to Juilliard, and she was fond of relating a similar story, albeit one with a happier ending. Boulez was presiding over a conducting class, and they were playing the Rite of Spring, I believe. After a cacophonous fortissimo tutti chord, he stopped the group and asked the conductor what was wrong with the chord. The student paused for amoment, then calmly replied that the third horn had played an F instead of an F sharp (or something like that). When Boulez grudgingly agreed that he was correct, the orchestra went nuts. That was a test people were not supposed to pass!
Edits: 10/05/15
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