Doublereed Archive - Posting 000015.txt from 2009/03

From: Bear Woodson <bearwoodson@-----.net>
Subj: [DR-L] Standing Cellists (was Saint-Saens Sonata)
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:52:33 -0500

> Listen to the Czech fellow who also plays the Saint
> Saens. Gardner's performance is excellent, and he is
> young. There is a considerable difference in the two
> performances. Why not sit?
> When was the last solo recital by a standing cellist?
> Herb

This is too long ago for many younger people here, but
I remember that stupid comedy movie, written by, directed
by, and staring, Woody Allen, called "Take the Money and
Run" from 1969.

It is the story of a bungling thief, who failed at everything
he did in life, including trying to play the Cello in his high
school marching band. In one short scene, we see him
running down the street of his small town, carrying a chair,
his cello and the bow. He places the chair down, play about
3 notes, and by then the rest of the marching band would
have gone way ahead of him, so he'd pick up the chair
again, and start running ahead. But this time he'd run far in
front of them, hoping to give himself more playing time, only
to have them turn a corner and go down another street
behind him. He's left alone, in the middle of the street playing
the cello, with traffic bearing down on him.

In another short scene, we see his 2-story house, and can
hear the horrible screeching of his cello, coming from a
closed, upstairs window, as he tries to get a tone out of it.
After several agonizing seconds of his terrible, loud scratchy
bowing, the window explodes outward, into the street, from
the cello being thrown out through it.

The rest of the movie focuses on his many failures as a
thief, with similarly stupid comedy. This was one of his
early, funny movies, before he started making movies telling
us more than we ever wanted to know, about his boring,
pathologic sex life.

http://www.mininova.org/tor/1219244
http://www.filmsite.org/take.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_the_Money_and_Run

Bear Woodson
Tucson, Arizona, USA

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