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- From: dwong@chopsuey.pico (David G. Wong - VIP user)
- Subject: Re: Musicians rubbishing composers !
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.191834.8419@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
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- References: <1992Nov16.205155.15582@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:18:34 GMT
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- In article 15582@spang.Camosun.BC.CA, dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov14.192740.5063@math.ucla.edu> pugh@pico.math.ucla.edu (David Pugh) writes:
- >>Okay folks, here is our new thread title. There appears to be some
- >>interest in this so fire away !
- >>
- >>This can also include proposterous statements or events.
- >>
- >>Here are some that I know about.
- >[....]
- >> Some conductor (forgotten who) when asked if he had conducted any
- >> Stockhausen, replied "No, but I've trodden in some"
- >
- >Attributed to Sir Thomas Beecham, but probably apocryphal.
- >
- >> Tschaikovsky's played his 1st piano concerto to a pianist (was it Von Bulow?)
- >> who then said it was clumsy, unplayable, crude, ridiculous, etc. (well
- >> words to that effect)
- >
- >Probably Anton Rubinstein.
- >
- so was Tschaikovski's violin concerto: when he dedicated the piece to Joachem,
- the comment from the violinist was "beating the violin black and blue...". Joachem
- even refused to give the premier performance.
-
- BTW, anyone knows who, where, and when the first performance of Tschaikovski's
- violin concerto was?
-