1395327253743: The German musician is, of course, thorough and pa... 1395327264270: I recall with great pleasure a solo tour I once di... 1395327274436: During the forty years in which I've been sitting ... 1395327289133: My next encounter was with the diminutive Oscar La... 1395327295681: Next in the succession of Beecham's leaders came o... 1395327303293: I also did a lot of listening, of course, and the ... 1395327310129: Then came the Ernest Read Symphony, supposedly com... 1395327324121: I was now a PT/Music/English instructor in RAF, be... 1395327333936: My very first impression of playing with a foreign... 1417877393034: 1417877595368: 1417878016987: 1417879021412: 1417879245825: 1418832972120: My chosen profession was therefore a scholastic on... 1419366050457: 1419366777117: For about forty years it has been impossible not t... 1419367288515: Another factor which has led to the unparalleled p... 1419368043540: Tympanists [sic], as distinct from percussionists,... 1419368270867: 1419441597463: 1419442646425: 1419443207838: 1419606904424: In 1950 we had Ferenc Fricsay to conduct nine perf... 1419607653301: Perhaps Fricsay's trouble was that in the 1950s he... 1419608546970: Perhaps more surprising was the appearance, a litt... 1419609418798: It isn't easy to come to terms with the fact that ... 1419609993357: Aaron Copland also presents his own music very abl... 1419610187067: Richard Strauss had an excellent reputation for co... 1419610393870: In his compositions, of which I, like my BBC Symph... 1419693548998: With his Schubert, Mozart and Brahms I myself felt... 1419693773388: 1419694500499: [Vittorio] Gui produced the most beautiful sound f... 1419694795548: Carlo Maria Giulini... his first impact upon the R... 1419695540191: The first item on the programme was the very gentl... 1419696497780: 1420487416105: There was never a moment of unpleasantness during ... 1420488006072: Sir John Pritchard... I vividly remember one occas... 1420488401151: Sir Malcolm Sargent... Certainly as a soloist one ... 1420488700114: Yet Sargent could sometimes dig in his heels with ... 1420489285450: Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt... His first appearance wi... 1420491410160: Leopold Stowkowski... was a conductor I am always ... 1420491822872: His last appearances in London (in 1977 on his nin... 1420492718702: In 1987 a trip to London can be an enlightening ex... 1420493299322: An hour later, descending the same escalator, I wa... 1420495368010: Still later, passing a draughty precinct in Croydo... 1420496053496: Music is what is made, not what the performer make... 1421869667200: The Clarionet was the first instrument I ever knew... 1421870399352: The strange thing was that in spite of its ill-fit... 1422044739499: If the rehearsals were a thrill with my new-found ... 1422045635571: There are dozens of these 'beginnings and endings'... 1422046493271: When the Super Cinema, a couple of years later, op... 1422046834980: ... but such is the character of the 'first and la... 1422047317590: It probably went, I should say, about as far as th... 1422048161536: 1422055715300: 1422131831645: The second event each weekend took all Sunday afte... 1422132629383: 1422133111392: ... the Gym, the very place in which I first met, ... 1422133415248: 1422133944774: The first of the London Philharmonic players I met... 1422134088360: The crucial experience was hearing the great Charl... 1422199743990: Weber's First Concerto ... It was just a great pie... 1422200277255: As soon as I could play the Finale I put it into ... 1422200648699: So in 1933 it was an important event, this first t... 1422201767860: One of the clarinet players, Bernard Walton, exact... 1422202053613: The first piece I met was the Tchaikovsky Pathétiq... 1422202539931: We were almost opposite to the Queen's Hall of hap... 1422203079594: Their most important occasion ever was the startli... 1422291133196: I had determined that the senior forms would hear ... 1422305429840: Dennis Brain... after which the next I heard of hi... 1422305514576: Ernest Read.... One occasion sticks in my mind bec... 1422307558417: Seeing a land-mine hanging by its parachute outsid... 1422307949891: Once, on leave at the house of Joan's people in Wi... 1422393041034: The big moment came with no warning at all, unaske... 1422396495318: It was like a dream come true for me, because when... 1422912512071: It was at about this time that I had my baptism by... 1422913907709: Our first efforts in 1948 were both by Mozart - Co... 1422914480732: Our next great visitor, the incomparable Jascha He... 1422915461127: It was about this time that the unusual combinatio... 1422996371869: At Elstree Studios we met quite a different pianis... 1422997127327: New Orleans was another such occasion. At 2 a.m. I... 1422997710502: Next morning we were rehearsing at ten o'clock, bu... 1422998054086: At Rockford, Illinois, we ran into a really nasty ... 1422998704312: Several of our concerts which were more of less in... 1422998938761: There was the night in Chicago when Dennis Brain h... 1422999254144: In Boston we supped at a place called the Hi-Hat C... 1423060297497: My last memory of playing with the Wigmore before ... 1423060723729: That is more than can be said for another occasion... 1423061540659: 1423062232765: In July we gave seven performances of Die Entführu... 1423062518221: In 1950, before we left for the USA, we had possib... 1423068838571: In addition to this, Edinburgh 1950 found me filli... 1423071222428: I was at a session in EMI Studios on November 7th ... 1423074436742: A conductor we were both surprised and delighted t... 1423075081802: ... Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt... Somehow I found it ... 1423075204890: Igor Stravinsky... He was a strange, tiny, bird-li... 1423075871026: Three events stick in my mind when I think of the ... 1423076676527: The 1963 season was quite phenomenal, a fitting cl... 1423169277513: There was one occasion when close proximity really... 1423170288802: ... somewhere in the West Country, when I had a wi... 1423171016131: David McCallum... gentle of voice and coaxing rath... | 