Ralph White wrote:

>Toscanini conducted without a score because he had a photographic memory. He
>once told someone questioning this that if he would look at page 300 in the
>Metropolitan's score of Aida, he would find a large inkstain at the top of
>the page. [I don't think anyone has ever suggested that he put the stain
>there on purpose to prove his memory].

Actually T conducted everything from memory because he had terrible
eyesight and was too vain to wear his glasses in public, but the
photographic memory certainly helped.

Bruce