Richard Temple Savage - 20th Century
from A voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician, page 32:
I was also learning a thing or two, playing in "La Bohème" for the first Italian conductor I had met, Vincenzo Belleza. He wore the largest number of sweaters I have ever seen at one time on one man and was constantly peeling them off or struggling into them again; but the problem was that he followed the habit of Italian maestri at that time and did no conduct at all in any passages of the opera where the orchestra was not actually playing. In the first act of "Bohème" particularly where there is a great deal of gambolling about and unaccompanied singing by the students, I was totally lost … more >>
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Richard Temple Savage, A voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician (Newton Abbot, 1988), p. 32. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1426870955084 accessed: 16 October, 2024
Listeners
Richard Temple Savage
1909-
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'La bohème'
written by Giacomo Puccini |
performed by Vincenzo Belleza, unspecified orchestra, Vincenzo |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 20th Century |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors, in public |
Notes
Locations unspecified.
Originally submitted by iepearson on Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:02:35 +0000
Approved on Sun, 20 Dec 2015 15:22:36 +0000