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Re: How many well-known conductors, pianists etc were alcoholics?

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Subject: Re: How many well-known conductors, pianists etc were alcoholics?
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by: Dan Koren - Wed, 6 Apr 2022 05:19 UTC

On Monday, November 13, 2017 at 8:19:04 AM UTC-8, Andy Evans wrote:
>
> This is probably something that's mostly off the record,

Slurred notes tend to be quite noticeable.

> and maybe a lot of stories are anecdotal or unsubstantaiet.
> But when a promising career tails off without obvious reason,
> one thing that comes to mind is the demon drink.
>
> Could be any nationality of course, but I'm curious about some
> of the Russians. Artists like Rozhtestvensky, Gauk, Sofronitsky
> and others. I have absolutely no idea if these guys drank or didn't -
> they're just some names that should maybe have had more
> substantial international careers, and there could have been
> any number of reasons for that.

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Re: How many well-known conductors, pianists etc were alcoholics?	Dan Koren