Klarinet Archive - Posting 000547.txt from 1995/11

From: James Perone <PERONEJE@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Damn Yankees -Reply
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 21:56:25 -0500

Recent discussion of "Damn Yankees" brings to mind an experience from
my college days. I was playing a rehearsal for a production in
Columbus, Ohio (Players Theatre) when one of the actors (the fellow
playing the devil) stopped everyone, walked down into the pit and
corrected some notes in the piano part. He then went back onstage
and the rehearsal (dress, as I recall) resumed. At the time, I
thought "Wow, some nerve". It turned out that the "devil" was John
Ness Beck, a well-known name in the choral arranging and composing
field -- I guess I had that nameless actor figured out all wrong!

James Perone, Assistant Professor of Music
Mount Union College
peroneje@-----.edu