Here’s a laugh-riot video of conductor Joseph R. Olefirowicz during a concert performance of “What’s the use” from Leonard Bernstein’s Candide at the Vienna Volksoper. (Now, imagine a certain major on the podium, and city council at the orchestra desks, to capture the mood of today’s Toronto):
http://youtu.be/SJU0lC3iHaY
John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.
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