On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 6:09:34 AM UTC-5, Willem Orange wrote:humor which Kna used on Fluffy with devastating effect. When it was mentioned to him that Fluffy conducted with no score and eyes closed, Kna's response "Well that's because I know how to read music" Culshaw remarked that this wonderful conductor of
A recent thread on another topic called up some really funny stories concerning Hans Knappertsbusch and Herbert von Karajan. They both conducted at Bayreuth in 1951, both were great musicians but Kna had something Fluffy sorely lacked - a sense of
On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 00:58:44 UTC, Dontait...@aol.com
wrote:
On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 6:09:34 AM UTC-5, Willem Orange wrote:
A recent thread on another topic called up some really funny
stories concerning Hans Knappertsbusch and Herbert von Karajan.
They both conducted at Bayreuth in 1951, both were great
musicians but Kna had something Fluffy sorely lacked - a sense of
humor which Kna used on Fluffy with devastating effect. When it
was mentioned to him that Fluffy conducted with no score and eyes
closed, Kna's response "Well that's because I know how to read
music" Culshaw remarked that this wonderful conductor of Parsifal
told some of the funniest dirty stories he ever heard.>>
Can somebody remind me where the nickname Fluffy came from. I seem to remember that it was a woman friend but no more......
Can somebody remind me where the nickname Fluffy came from.
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