Klarinet Archive - Posting 000342.txt from 1996/05

From: Claudia Zornow <claudia@-----.COM>
Subj: Guides to orchestras
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 14:39:00 -0400

Britten is all very well, but you can't top Garrison Keillor's
"Young Lutheran's Guide to the Orchestra":

Many Lutherans start out playing clarinets in marching band and think
of it as a pretty good instrument and kind of sociable. You pick up
a clarinet, and you feel like getting together with other people and
forming an "M." But the symphonic clarinet is different: clever,
sarcastic, kind of snooty. It's a nice small town instrument that
went to college and after that you can't get a simple answer out of
them. It _is_ a French instrument, you know. Ever wonder why there
are no French Lutherans? Probably the wine wasn't good enough for them.

Claudia