Neville Marriner takes a symphonic baton between his teeth
It was 1959, and a promising new chamber orchestra called the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields was gathered in London to make its first recording. The players decided that they needed something they had done without in their initial concerts: a conductor. Their concertmaster, Neville Marriner, hesitantly took the baton. "We went along for a few bars; then everything broke down," Marriner recalls. "We tried a few more bars and everything broke down again. Finally our oboist said, 'Well, Nev, if you're going to conduct, either...
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