Richard Todd wrote:
>Charles Munch, Pierre Monteux, Thomas Schippers, Joseph Krips were
>regular conductors in absence of an artistic director until 1957.
Indeed, along with Markevitch, they all appeared with the orchestra in
1958/59 season, Krips giving the Canadian premiere of Bruckner 8. A
notorious evening in more than one way for the programme reads at the
top:
Given in the presence of His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and
Mrs. Kurt Waldheim
John G. Deacon
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