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PROGRAMME ITEM CHANGED. CONDUCTOR PROVIDES CLIMAX. (By Air Mail—Special to News.) London, June 27. A musical friend swears this is a true bill. A famous but temperamental conductor not long ago gave an orchestral performance at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. After the programme had been arranged and printed he feared it might be too long, and that during the last item people would be shuffling about to get away and catch their trains. Anything of that sort was anathema to the great musician. So, without making any change in the printed programme or announcing the fact, the conductor told his orchestra to substitute for the final item another shorter composition.
At the end of the performance an ovation of applause swept the hall, and, after being recalled seven or eight times, the conductor realised that he must concede an encore. So he told the orchestra to play the piece originally on the programme as the last item. And, turning . to the ecstatic audience before giving the signal to begin, he said: “Ladies and gentlemen, we will now play you the piece you think you have just heard.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1935, Page 7
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