“Time was when the director of an orchestra was "a pianist, an organist, a violinist; a composer with a club which he banged on the floor, ana I can myself remember, in an important south European capital, a man who helped the conductor at the Royal Opera House by striking up on a wooden clapper the moment the chorus bgpan, and going on all the time they were singing. The silent conductor came in in the early 19th century, and seems to be a fixture for the present ’’ Sir Adrian Boult in the, BJ.C. Third Programme.
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Press, Issue 29236, 21 June 1960, Page 20
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