Now we will play something we have never played before. I didn't mean that. Mahler wrote it as the 3rd Movement of his 4th Symphony. I mean the 4th Movement of his 1st Symphony -- we play it third. The trumpet solo will be played by our solo trumpet player. It's named "Blumine" -- which has something to do with flowers.



Paulo linked to a more extensive collection of some fractured comments from the tongue of Eugene Ormandy. I've a lot of happy memories of the Philadelphia Orchestra under his artistic direction, but this collection suggests that a conversation between Ormandy and Samuel Goldwyn would also have been worth the price of admission.



William? You're going to call him William? What kind of a name is that? Every Tom, Dick and Harry is called William.