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...them fumed. "I'll teach my grandmother to suck eggs." They confidently expected to have their own way with the music: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Haydn's Symphony No. 73, and the William Tell overture. But they were in for a rude shock. The young maestrina had her own ideas about tempo-generally she likes it faster than the London Philharmonic does-and she rapped them to a halt time & again to tell them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Victor & Gianella | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

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