Bob K., responding to a note about young Welser-Moest:
>Let's not forget Toscanini! I bet someone remembers the anecdote better
>than I:
>
>While he was playing... in the... orchestra in... the conductor got
>sick and he stepped in to conduct the opera... from memory at age...
>Well, someone I reckon can fill in the blanks. cello . . . La Scala. .
>.Buenos Aires. . .Otello. . .19
or
Hoover. . .Hoffnung Festival . . .Milton Keynes. . .La Cantatrice Squelante
. . .81
Take your pick. They're both probably apocryphal.
Scott Morrison