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...sometimes wore fingerless gloves while he played, sang along with the music, and sat on a stool so low that he could touch the keyboard with his nose. Before a performance of the Brahms D minor piano concerto, Conductor Leonard Bernstein turned to the audience and made a short speech, dissociating himself from his soloist's unorthodox view of the piece. At his Cleveland Orchestra debut in 1957, he tangled with the irascible maestro George Szell over his use of the soft pedal in a Beethoven concerto; Szell never performed with him after that, but saluted: "That...
...replied. He stood up, whipped a silver revolver out of the waistband of his jeans and fired a well-aimed bullet into each of his harassers as other passengers dived screaming to the floor. The gunman then helped two terrified women to their feet and calmly told a conductor that the youths "tried to rip me off." He stepped through the rear door of the car, jumped onto the tracks and disappeared into the gloom of the subway tunnel. His victims, all ages 18 or 19, were rushed to hospitals; three appeared to be recovering, but Darryl Cabey was paralyzed...
ORFF: CARMINA BURANA (London). Conductor Riccardo Chailly gives Orff's Wheel of Fortune a lusty spin...
RAMEAU: PYGMALION (Erato). Conductor Nicholas McGegan's graceful performance of the gentle opera-ballet...
...that did not stop Speaker Tip O'Neill, 72, from mounting the podium. The venerable Democrat journeyed to his home state last week to narrate A Visit from St. Nicholas with the Boston Pops. Although O'Neill had rehearsed with the orchestra only once, neither he nor Conductor John Williams missed a beat, even when the audience interrupted the narrative with laughter and applause whenever O'Neill's eyebrows started moving con brio. Afterward the Speaker confessed that he had a private rehearsal at home, with his grandchildren prompting "Pop-Pop" whenever he flubbed a line...