Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>For this particular orchestral musician, who is still playing superbly
>at 81, the greatest orchestral conductor of them all (and he played under
>just about everyone you can think of, with the exception of Toscanini) was
>Victor de Sabata, who not only knew the scores inside out (pointing out
>an error in the LPO's library copy of, IIRC, Berlioz's Carnaval Romain
>overture that nobody knew about)

You should ask Bob if he knew the LPO player who dubbed De Sabata as "a
cross between Satan and Julius Caesar".

Ramon Khalona
(another VdS fan)