Steven Schwartz ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Just to give Leighton his due, I recount the following anecdote supposedly
>about the witty conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, Bart.
>
>When asked if he ever conducted Stockhausen, Beecham replied, "No, I've
>never conducted Stockhausen, but I may have stepped in some once."

Although in my book of musical anecdotes this is described as probably
apocryphal.  After all Beecham died in 1961 and I cannot imagine how likely
he was actually to have heard anything by KZ.

OTOH he could just have been giving the standard kneejerk reaction...

Deryk Barker
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