Ramon Khalona ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >>For this particular orchestral musician, who is still playing superbly >>at 81, the greatest orchestral conductor of them all (and he played under >>just about everyone you can think of, with the exception of Toscanini) was >>Victor de Sabata, who not only knew the scores inside out (pointing out >>an error in the LPO's library copy of, IIRC, Berlioz's Carnaval Romain >>overture that nobody knew about) > >You should ask Bob if he knew the LPO player who dubbed De Sabata as "a >cross between Satan and Julius Caesar". Doubtless he did - do you know who it was? Interestingly Bob has said that there seemed to an Italian conductorial style - certainly de Sabata, Giulini and Cantelli all apparently checked the positioning of their feet as they mounted the podium. deryk barker ([log in to unmask], http://www.camosun.bc.ca/~dbarker)