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Article: Memoirs.(Obituary)(Review)
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- New Criterion
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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Probably the best anecdotes from the music world concern conductors. They, more than composers or performers, are the hot center of comic interaction with musicians, composers, administrators, and audiences. They also often have epic rivalries with fellow conductors that give rise to exquisite putdowns. They are apt to display the prima donnaish caprices of star performers, the dictatorial lese majeste of persons in charge of large aggregations, and the histrionic vanity of audience cynosures.
There are, to be sure, conductors whose public and private lives are modest, blameless, and unanecdotal, but they are rare. As his recent, posthumous Memoirs makes plain, ...
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