“Kaye to conduct at gala concert”
The Windsor Star – May 15, 1984
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MONTREAL (CP) – Danny Kaye, the 71-
The orchestra has already sold 1,200 of 3,000 available tickets at $250 each for the concert which it hopes will earn it $400,000.
Kaye, who has conducted orchestras dozens of times over the years to raise an estimated $6.5 million (U.S.) for charities or the fine arts, would not discuss the concert program at a news conference Monday because “it would remove the element of surprise.
“As much for the musical part as the non-
“In general terms I can start at the northeast corner of the stage and finish at the southwest but between the two…” he said without finishing.
Kaye said conducting orchestras was never a challenge for him even though he had never studied how to do it because he never had to earn his living at it.
He said he does it because he has the nerve to conduct and enjoys conducting for any worthy cause.
Kaye conducted the MSO in 1977 and remembers doing a Rossini overture and Ravel’s Bolero “but I didn’t conduct the whole Bolero because if I had you would still be there.”