Klarinet Archive - Posting 000251.txt from 1996/03

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: Richard Stolzman streaking
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 21:41:54 -0500

Oh, it's true all right. He was wearing his beard at the time but nothing
else. It took place in Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium in NYC which is
just about as prestigious a place as you can play in. He had played the
Brahms quintet and then, after intermission when the audience was seated
and the quartet was about to begin the first Bartok string quartet,
zingo, in came Richard, bareass as a jaybird. It was the thing to do then,
and I have no idea why he did it. Perhaps he did not need a reason.

I have heard two stories about the actual entrace: one that he came in from
the back and streaked to the front, jumped on the stage and ran into the
wings tush last. The other that he came from the stage and ran to the
back of GRR auditorium with his winkie in full view on the New York
cognoscenti. They say that there was some cheering.

He was not hired in NY after that for a number of months, which was awful
because he was the best free-lancer around. He lost several festivals.
But he was so good (and it was so funny) that eventually everyone forgot
about it except those who saw his winkie in its totality. Some say it
had keys on it!!

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
(leeson@-----.edu)
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