Bob K., responding to a note about young Welser-Moest:

>Let's not forget Toscanini!  I bet someone remembers the anecdote better
>than I:
>
>While he was playing...  in the...  orchestra in...  the conductor got
>sick and he stepped in to conduct the opera...  from memory at age...
>Well, someone I reckon can fill in the blanks.  cello . . . La Scala. .
>.Buenos Aires. . .Otello. . .19

or

Hoover. . .Hoffnung Festival . . .Milton Keynes. . .La Cantatrice Squelante
. . .81

Take your pick. They're both probably apocryphal.

Scott Morrison