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In Reply to: RE: Stockhausen! posted by Chris from Lafayette on August 31, 2015 at 20:59:33
I heard the Beecham Stockhausen story decades ago, when my younger brother was at the Boston Conservatory, so I am very certain that the story was in circulation before Lebrecht began his career.
A Beecham story I have not seen publicized comes via Arturo Delmoni. Beecham was guest-conducting the Cleveland Orchestra. Beecham for some reason was unclear about the order of the program, so he bent over and asked Gingold "What's the first piece?"
Gingold was so flummoxed that he blurted out "The Dying Flutchman," and Beecham started chortling so hard that he had to steady himself on the podium, and every time he thought he was ready to begin conducting, he started laughing again, which only added to Gingold's misery (and perhaps fear that Beecham would have a heart attack then and there).
JM
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I cannot imagine what might have happened if Sir Thomas Beecham were to have collaborated with Victor Borge..........
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I love otur tidbits
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
"The French Horns are too loud."
The Concert Master leans over and says, "But the French Horns aren't playing there."
So Beecham sys, " Well, if they Had been playing, they Would have been too loud..."
Also, at one Concert he thought the first piece was Beethoven's 5th Sym, so he wound up
and gave a Big Down beat, and the Orch started playing
the Pastoral Sym.
(You have to visualize it...)
OK, back to Stockhausen-Bashing.
"Please be so good as to get in touch every now and then..."
jm
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