Walter Meyer wrote::
>I read that when Beecham (whose orchestra apparently contained no women)
>discovered that the Philadelphis did indeed have women players he asked
>Stokowski or Ormandy or whoever was directing the orchestra at the time
>whether that didn't give rise to complications. When told that it did
>not, Beecham is said to have replied, "What a pity!"
Beecham had a soulmate in Toscanini. On the question why he didn't allow
Females in his orchestra Toscanini replied:
"If they are beautiful they distract my musicians, and if they are
ugly they irritate me"
Mats Norrman
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