Re: Booed conductors

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<5d271ca9-15ac-400f-9d4b-ef4e53963c2f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<Dontaitchicago@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Feb 28, 9:14�pm, Doug McDonald <NOmcdon...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Curtis Croulet wrote:

[snip]

What did they play? �Rubinstein recorded Tchaikovsky 1 with Barbirolli
in
1932, but, of course, that was a long time before the incident you
describe.

It was either the Tchaikovsky I or the most famous Rachmaninoff.

The Houston band at that time was bush league in execution. One of my
college friends, a fine hornist, upon hearing a huge blooper in the big
horn intro to the Tchaikovsky PC, stood up (from front row center
balcony) and said so ... i.e. shouted at the top of his lungs, "bush
league". This was a different performance.

Barbirolli and the Houston SO gave a concert in Chicago around 1965
at which I witnessed something unique in my experience. They were
doing Sibelius's Symphony no. 5. Suddenly there was a loud thudding
and banging from the double-bass section. One of the players' bows had
broken, and for some reason -- I don't know what; perhaps the hairs of
the bow were caught in the strings and the player was trying to
untangle them --the loose end kept banging against the body of the
instrument. The orchestra continued to play, and in my mind's eye I
can still see Barbirolli almost frantically gesturing toward the
musician with his left hand to "stop, stop!"

(I've told this story before in here, so apologies to those to whom
this is a repeat)

On a Boston Symphony concert I taped a long time ago (don't have it
anymore - rats!), William Pierce, the announcer, explained the presence
of applause right in the middle of the playing. The power and lights
had gone out in Symphony Hall right as Rudolf Serkin and Orchestra were
playing a Beethoven Concerto. Except for a couple of murmurred
inhalations, there was no indication in the sound that it had happened
- both pianist and orchestra continued playing as if they could see in
a fully lighted hall. The applause happened when the lights came back
on, after nobody missed a beat.

-Owen
.

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