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[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

GeeBee wrote:
>>my theory teacher had better stories
>>anyway - especially the one about the cello player who was told by a
>>conductor to quit "scratching that thing between her legs".
> Hi David,
> 
> Sir Thomas Beecham was the conductor and this is a fuller version:
> 
> "Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure
> to thousands, and all you can do is scratch it! "
> 
> If you Google his name you will find many more:
> 
> "Try everything once except folk dancing and incest."
> 
> "Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles
> away."
> 
> "There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish
> together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."
> 
> "If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to 
> achieve
> immortality."
> 
> on the sound of a harpsichord - "two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in 
> a
> thunderstorm."
> 
> on an unidentified soprano in Die Walk?re - "Her singing reminds me of a
> cart coming downhill with the brake on."
> 
> to a musician during a rehearsal - "We cannot expect you to be with us all
> the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and
> again."
> 
> on Bruckner's Seventh Symphony - "In the first movement alone, I took note
> of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages."
> 
> Sir Thomas Beecham was once asked if he had played any Stockhausen. "No," 
> he
> replied, "but I have trodden in some."
> --Graham

he quite clearly belongs here in the LUG....    :-)

and not a bad conductor either...

Steve