"What Sir Malcolm Sargent thought of it"

Submitted by Barry Holroyd (European Union), Jul 2, 2008 at 10:04

When Sir Malcolm Sargent, chief conductor of London's 'Proms' festival was asked whether he had ever conducted any Stockhausen, he was briefly silent before replying, "I think I once trod in some." I take it, the great man didn't care for Stockhausen's 'music.'

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