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 [log in to unmask]