Ernest Robles responds to me:

> Robert Conrad of WCLV fame said that Ormandy greatly respected Szell
> and considered him a friend.  It was Ormandy who conducted the Cleveland
> Orchestra in a commemorative concert after Szell's death - Beethoven
> 9th, I think.  Conrad's comments were in connection with a rebroadcast
> of that concert some years ago.

Robert Conrad would know.  I make no claims for the accuracy of my
information.  I was simply repeating what I heard in the rumor mill in
Cleveland forty years ago.  That's why I put in the line, "It's a nice
story."

Anyway, glad to take the correction.

Steve Schwartz

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