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A wonderful Beecham story (perhaps apochryphal), as quoted in Harold
Schonberg's "The Great Conductors":
"He also generally conducted from memory, once in a while with
disastrous results. He himself used to tell, with great glee, of
a concert he gave with Alfred Cortot as piano soloist. Cortot's
memory was notoriously unreliable, and he had a grievous lapse in
the finale of the concerto. Both Cortot and Beecham maneuvered,
but were unable to come together. `We started with the Beethoven,
and I kept up with Cortot through the Grieg, Schumann, Bach and
Tchaikovsky, and then he hit on one I didn't know, so I stopped
dead.'"
Bruce
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