Leonard Bernstein’s way with orchestras that wouldn’t give him what he wanted was usually imploring, even beseeching. He was disappointed—the musicians were not so much failing him, the conductor, as ...
Years ago, I was in Carnegie Hall for a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (“Resurrection”). At the end, the audience stood and applauded. That included me and a friend of mine, a young conductor.
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