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Johan Franco Symphonies 1-4

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« on: January 05, 2014, 02:55:12 pm »

Excerpt from an interview with Franco:

BD:  Have you basically been pleased with all the performances you have heard of your music over the years?

JF:  [Without hesitation]  Oh, no.  [Laughs]  No!  I've had the craziest things happen.  I had a performance in Carnegie Hall of my Third Symphony [subtitled "Symphony Concertante"] where the brass were supposed to use C trumpets, but they didn't look in the score, and they didn't look in the part, and they used B-flat instruments.

BD:  So they were a whole tone off through the entire thing???

JF:  A whole tone off through the whole piece, and they didn't know what hit them.  I knew what hit me, and it was just awful.  I told the conductor, "I think we should do it over, don't you think?"  And he never replied.  I won't mention his name, but I'm sure you know of him.  That was in 1945 or so...


I would REALLY like to hear that performance!  Or even know who the conductor was!
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