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To: PUGACHEV
I saw him conduct el Amor de Brujo few months ago at the Kennedy Center...wow - that must have been the incident referred to in the obituary - can't think of much better or more appropriate music for him to go by if he had to go - must've been good....
11 posted on 06/13/2014 9:35:58 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Intolerant in NJ

He did The Pines of Rome too that night. We were in the second parterre box at stage level, so we were maybe 25 yards away from him. At some point, I think it was during “Pines”, he began to wobble backward and one of the cellists in the second row quickly jumped up and ran off stage. About ten seconds after that, he took a header off the podium, but some nimble second violinists caught him before he hit the floor. They gently placed him in a sitting position with his feet dangling off the edge of the podium. He took a few seconds, then raised his baton and took off from there finishing the concert. At the end he was helped off the stage and did not return. At no point during any of this did the orchestra stop or even miss a note.


12 posted on 06/14/2014 11:11:01 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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