[youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-zaGM39Cik&w=854&h=480]
I’m declaring Haydn the patron composer of middle school orchestras everywhere.
“Antony Hodgson identifies George Szell as a conductor who was not afraid to overdo “the vulgarity of this joke”. Hodgson argues that “if, in concert, none of the audience laughs, then the episode must have been underplayed.””