ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR
Injury At Rehearsal (N.Z. Press Association) SYDNEY, June 24. Dean Dixon, the newly appointed musical director and conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, injured his right arm at his first rehearsal on Monday: He tore ligaments in the shoulder while leading the orchestra through an energetic passage of Tchaikovsky’s sixth symphony—the “Pathetique,” But Mr Dixon said he would conduct as planned at concerts this week.
“I will conduct with my eyebrows if necessary,” he said. “But I can use the left hand.” It was the second time he had disabled his conducting arm.
Last October he struck his thumb on a music stand while conducting the 8.8. C. Symphony Orchestra in London, and still wears a bandage for support.
Mr Dixon said last night: “A doctor advised me to give the arm at least six days’ rest.
“I love doctors. They are very necessary for human progress. But I came to conduct. So we came to a sort of compromise. I will give the arm half-rest for 12 days or. quar-ter-rest for longer.”
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30477, 26 June 1964, Page 7
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