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A moving five minutes for conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent relaxing at home yesterday. BY A STAFF REPORTER He walked on to the stage of the Albert Hall in London on Sat- urday, a short, spare man thinned by illness, to be met by the loudest ovation that a last-night "Proms" audience, experts in ovations, have ever produced. Last night Sir Malcoln Sargent still beamed with pleasure over his surprise five-minute appearanoi-a superbly stage-managed operation which even diminished the emotive power of " Rule Britannia" or the sentiment of "Jerusalem". Yes," he reflected, " it was very moving. I was so delighted to be ba.L" It was only on Saturday mom- Ing that Sir Mlakolm, kss than two months after a major operation for the removal of his ga}l bladder, decided to make bis brief walk-on, sadly his only appearance at this year's Promenade season. Helped by doctor " My doctor and my surgeon told me-' if you want to go on, we'll get you on'", be said. "They fed me injections of salines and glucose throughout the afternoon to build up my stength, and I made it." His doctor helped Sir Malcohn, who is 72, to the Albert HaU from his flat next door; his surgeon sat in Sir Malcolm's own box. iWe went over when the Sea Shanties started, then returned afer the concert and held a smal party with fiends in my bedroom. " This would have been my twenty- first season at the Proms and I bgave been so sad to have missed it. Bit it has been a wonderful season wizA attendances weU up on last ye*;I. Colin Davis in parficular has done a magnificent job." And now ? --I plan to go abroad a little later. It will be somewhere warm. And at the end of October I leave for America to conduct the New York Philharmonic and the Westminster Choir. I shall be doing The Creation there." 'Does you good' Sir Makcolm looked rdaxed in an armcbair-" You will excuse my not getting up ? --in braided black dressing gown, white silk- stock, and shirt cuffs S3howing at an impeccable kngth. "Illness". he said does you good. If anything, conductors im- prove after illness. It can doepen one's spirituality, one's understand- in" He believes music is a wonderUl way to break down political fron- tiers. International friendship can be cnlarged through tbe arts. One feels better for mu Pc. People bio love Beethoven's Ninth Symphony are not likely to take LS.D.", be said. He is already lootdng forward to next year's Proms. -nd Me year aftcr that.. . Last might review, Fae 6. A moving five minutes for conductor
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