Aaron Rabushka ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >The story that I'd heard about Scherchen replacing Webern at this premiere >was that the latter had taken two rehearsals to get through eight measures. >Is this verified anywhere or is it yet another bubba misa? According to Louis Krasner's notes to the Continuum release, Webern rehearsed 'one, two or even three notes at a time' although 'after two rehearsals we had not covered more than three or four pages'. Scherchen took over, having never even seen the score, and had just 1/2 hour's rehearsal, at around midnight the night before the premiere. There is a similar story concerning a BBC SO Mahler 6 which Webern was to conduct in the mid-30s. According to what I read some years back, agter 3 hours of rehearsal they hadn't got past bar 6. The performance was cancelled. Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]