Ms. Schneider once conducted the piece from a transcription; then she did it again after Evans's original scores were found.
Stokowski recalled that he did "like the music"; was happy to collaborate on the project, and offered to conduct the piece at no cost.
Richter did eventually conduct the piece in London in 1882.
And then it was a question of who was to conduct the piece.
He conducted the piece at Yale in the fall of 1972, at which time the composer elected to take the cast and orchestra abroad.
Oliver Knussen conducted the piece at the start of the program and repeated it just before the intermission.
No stranger either to renegade classical music or to jazz, he is quite sanguine about conducting the piece.
It's nice to have someone who's conducted the same piece.
Speaking to the audience before he conducts the piece, Adès says simply: "It's not my fault."
Whenever they performed it, Blackmon introduced Warren, who would then conduct the piece.