[Fmpro] Bad composers/arrangers

[Fernando Rivas]

There's another one about a conductor who stabbed himself in the hand with
the baton and had to be hospitalized. I'm not sure but it might have been
Klemperer.

FR


On 1/7/07 3:16 PM, "Chris Alpiar" <chris at alpiar.com> wrote:

> OK I have confirmed that THAT conductor would be Sir Georg Solti. I talked
> with an old buddy from Berklee and he thinks its Toscanini that is the one
> that stabbed someone else in the eye, but neither can remember the exact
> details and I cant find anything about it on the internet. Lol one of these
> days I will figure the story out, until then lets create a new great urban
> legend hah
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmpro-bounces+chris=alpiar.com at nxport.com
> [mailto:fmpro-bounces+chris=alpiar.com at nxport.com] On Behalf Of Rolin Mains
> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 1:02 PM
> To: fmpro at nxport.com
> Subject: Re: [Fmpro] Bad composers/arrangers
> 
> i've heard of a conductor who, during a particularly dramatic passage of
> music, stabbed himself in the eye.  but he didn't die.
> 
> Rolin Mains
> 
>> From: Chris Alpiar <chris at alpiar.com>
>> Reply-To: <fmpro at nxport.com>
>> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:55:16 -0500
>> To: <fmpro at nxport.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Fmpro] Bad composers/arrangers
>> 
>> Who is the composer that killed his concert master by stabbing him in the
>> eye with his baton? When asked his plea, he said he killed him in self
>> defense, "He killed my music so I defended myself" or something like that.
> I
>> think it was an eastern Europe or Russian composer, tho for the life of me
> I
>> cant remember who. It was a story they told to us in a history of music
>> class at Berklee College of Music.
> 
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