“Any final instructions, coach?” I ask.

“Listen,” she says, “the bowing, at the end, is the hard part. It’s all about the bowing, so we’ve got to practice that.”

I tell her about the terrible mistake I made at New Jersey’s Symphony. I bowed to the orchestra afterward, which had the effect of mooning the audience.

(Conversation between Marin Alsop and Scott Simon, before he was to narrate Peter & The Wolf.)

I read it here.