Rachmaninoff played his Third Concerto in January 1909 in New York, conducted by Gustav Mahler. Rachmaninoff recalled the rehearsal: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Suddenly, Mahler, who had conducted this passage a tempo, <\/em>tapped his desk:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cStop! Don\u2019t pay any attention to the difficult bowing marked in your parts. \u2026 Play the passage like this,\u201d and he indicated a different method of bowing. After he made the first violins play the passage over alone three times, the man sitting next to the leader put down his violin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI can\u2019t play the passage with this kind of bowing.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mahler (quite unruffled): \u201cWhat kind of bowing would you like to use?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs it is marked in the score.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mahler turned towards the leader with an interrogative look, and when he found the latter was of the same opinion, he tapped the desk again: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPlease play it as written.\u201d <\/p>\nO. Riesemann, Rachmaninoff’s Recollections<\/em>, New York, Routledge, 2015, p. 159.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rachmaninoff played his Third Concerto in January 1909 in New York, conducted by Gustav Mahler. Rachmaninoff recalled the rehearsal: Suddenly, Mahler, who had conducted this passage a tempo, tapped his desk: \u201cStop! Don\u2019t pay any attention to the difficult bowing marked in your parts. \u2026 Play the passage like this,\u201d and he indicated a different […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1009,76],"class_list":["post-7007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performers-and-performances","tag-mahler","tag-rachmaninoff"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7008,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7007\/revisions\/7008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}