"Ralph D. White" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Toscanini conducted without a score because he had a photographic memory. He
>once told someone questioning this that if he would look at page 300 in the
>Metropolitan's score of Aida, he would find a large inkstain at the top of
>the page. [I don't think anyone has ever suggested that he put the stain
>there on purpose to prove his memory].

No, he had a good memory true, but I still think if his eyes had been good
enough to see the notes, he had conducted with score. He refused the whole
his life to wear glasses too, although he was blind as a bat.

James Zehm
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