Deryk Barker wrote:

>Didn't Otto Klemperer, when asked why he conducted *with* a score,
>growlingly reply "because *I* can read music"?

Deryck, the way I heard it, it was Knappertsbusch who said it.  Must be
another one of those maestro legends.

I heard the T conducted from memory because his eyesight was so poor he
couldn't read the score from the podium and so memorized it.

Eric