[Fmpro] Bad composers/arrangers

[Rolin Mains]

note to self:

keep pointy objects away from the conductor.

Rolin Mains







> From: Fernando Rivas <rivas2750 at comcast.net>
> Reply-To: <fmpro at nxport.com>
> Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:33:11 -0500
> To: <fmpro at nxport.com>
> Conversation: [Fmpro] Bad composers/arrangers
> Subject: Re: [Fmpro] Bad composers/arrangers
> 
> 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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