"From [the age of] seven years, I started to go to concerts, collecting autographs and preparing the scores for the concert during the week and, of course, dreaming that the conductor would be sick. Then I would jump on the stage, make my debut and I would be famous... It did happen, with the Romanian State Ensemble – without poisoning the conductor,"
-- Sergiu Comissiona, former Music Director for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, 1928-2005.