Alexander Mackenzie in London
from A Musician's Narrative , page 242:
I had to conduct a full orchestra on one occasion at St. Paul's, and at the rehearsal the brass sounded like nothing earthly; while the horns, in particular, provided a series of agonizing aural stabs. At the following day's performance I could only get through the piece by automatically following the first violins and totally ignoring the blatant chaos produced by the orchestra. Nor was my anxiety relieved when during a choral rehearsal at the R.A.M. the male voices treated me to similar, though somewhat less painful, effects. The phenomenon lasted for several weeks; in time, however, my … more >>
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Alexander Mackenzie, A Musician's Narrative (London, 1927), p. 242. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1432124395858 accessed: 20 April, 2025
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Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by gkw on Wed, 20 May 2015 13:19:56 +0100
Approved on Wed, 02 Mar 2016 14:26:47 +0000