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« on: January 05, 2014, 02:55:12 pm » |
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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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