A joke for John Collins: Leonard Bernstein is conducting a rehearsal of the final movement from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. He gives the chorus a break to work with the strings for a while. The basses use the opportunity to go to the bar next door, where they proceed to get quite inebriated. When they return no one can walk straight–two pass out on the risers and one hapless singer stumbles into Bernstein’s music stand, sending pages of sheet music flying and prompting LB to tie the music down onto the stand to prevent further mishaps. Later, as he recounted the worst rehearsal of his career: “There I was, at the bottom of the Ninth, with two out, the basses loaded, and the score tied.”
Posted on: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 09:00:59 +0000
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