... couldn't conduct a bus!

[John Shelton]

Richard Osborne: Klemperer who, as Robert Tear ... cheekily reveals, was actually asleep during the recording of one of the choruses for his EMI set of the B minor Mass.

Perhaps everything livens up a bit at that point .

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The double bass player (the local policeman) had probably the only three-stringed bass still in
existence. When the conductor told him that a certain note was flat, he replied “It can't be,
Mr. Conductor. It's my open string!”