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- From: jcm2w@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (John Clarke Mccanless)
- Subject: Re: Urban legends
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.094237.20283@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:42:37 GMT
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- In article <18746@mindlink.bc.ca> Mike_Quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley) writes:
- >I heard a story about Andre Previn when he was working in Hollywood. The
- >musicians in the studio orchestra tuned up on B rather than A. But Previn had
- >perfect pitch, so when the rehearsal started, he says "OK, let's transpose
- >everything a tone up!" (Corrections to this story welcome if it is not
- >exact.)
-
- It would be a tone down, to restore A=440, but good story! =-)
-
- I saw a PBS special of Solti's "new look" at Beethoven 5. In rehearsal,
- he stopped at the oboe solo in the first movement, and told the CSO the
- following (loosely):
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- Dr. Mengelberg was conducting the 5th and stopped his orchestra at the
- oboe solo. He then talked for several minutes about his conducting
- teacher, who was a student of a student of Beethoven himself, and thus
- the solo should always be played THIS way (insert hordes of adjectives
- here). At the end of the speech, the oboist paused, then said,
- "So, Dr. Mengelberg, should I play it forte or piano?"
-
-
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- John C. McCanless jcm2w@virginia.edu
-
- "Genius! Pure, unadulterated, GENIUS!!" - Wile E. Coyote
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