u2018 A trip to India is an exceptionu2019 dalreen ramos dalreen. ramos@ mid- day. com IN 1999 during a lunchtime concert in Amsterdam, Riccardo Chailly started conducting the first bar of Mozartu2019s piano concerto no 20 in D minor. Itu2019s when Maria Jou00e3o Pires started panicking or what Chailly described as an u201c electric shock.u201d She had learnt the wrong concerto; itu2019s worse than not knowing an answer to a question in the final examination u2014 you canu2019t just make stuff up and you certainly donu2019t get marks for getting a step right.

In a minute, she recuperated and started to play, without skipping a single note.