Simon Rattle hits a half-century
OrchestrasThere’s a party coming up at the AskonasHolt agency in London for their star conductor in the next few days.
It’s 50 years ago this month since a newly-hired agent Martin Campbell-White saw a kid of 17 organise and conduct a performance of Mahler’s second symphony at the Royal Academy of Music.
MC-W asked his boss if he could sign the kid.
Permission was granted. The rest is noise.
CBSO photo: Rattle, 1979
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