Klarinet Archive - Posting 000548.txt from 1996/02

From: niethamer@-----.BITNET
Subj: Re: Hindemith
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 23:58:02 -0500

On Fri, 16 Feb 1996, MELINDA M. MILLER wrote:

> I commend your director for performing the entire Symphonic
> Metamorpheses! Many groups only perform the last movement, and the
> entire work is extraordinary! That second movement has a melody that
> will stay in your brain FOREVER!

I'd like to post a somewhat naughty set of words to this second mvt
theme, and blame them on flutist Thomas Nyfenger, who supposedly coined
them for his Yale students.

"Please Mr. Meuller, we don't want to play,
Cause the tempo's bad, the ryhthm s(tin)ks, and we don't get no pay"

Otto Werner Meuller was then the orchestra conductor at Yale. "Stinks"
was not the expletive of first choice, but this is a family list!

David Niethamer