Felix Delbruck wrote:

>of the value of composers' interpretations.  If I'm not mistaken,
>Stravinsky was a conducting amateur who could barely beat time, but H.
>was pretty proficient and wasn't he also a successful violist?

H was a first-class viola player and no mean conductor either.  There is a
recording circulating in the underground of him conducting the NYPO in 1960
Weber's Euryanthe overture which is excellent.

I've never heard Stravinsky conduct anybody else's music.

Deryk Barker
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