"Tchaikovsky hated to conduct by his own admission. He became obsessed with the fear that his head was going to fall off while he conducted. In 1868, when Tchaikovsky conducted his own Dances of the Hay Maidens, he held his head in place with his left hand while he conducted with his right."
But luckily there is not such a border bs going on. All part of the eu.
Where you can move your front door if you want to move your house from one country to the other if you have a house on top of one of all the boarders crisscrossing the town/towns :)