How to knot a tie, by Riccardo Muti
mainHis student is Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov.
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Are you sure you don’t mean “How to tie a knot”?
“It’s spring! It’s spring! The bird is on the wing!”
— “My goodness, how absurd!
I have always heard:
The wing is on the bird.”
‘Spring is sprung, the grass is ris,
I wonder where the birdy is,
The bird is on the wing,
Which is absurd,
Cos all the time
The wing is on the bird’
I think this is the original version (or near to it)
Muti is a class act. Always has been. And may possess more of a sense of humour than he’s credited with…
I once went to a talk by Muti (via Friends of the Philharmonia) and he was infinitely charming and amusing. A class act. Bless him.
He is also very funny. As he is here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ-G3qNmI0U