Klarinet Archive - Posting 000132.txt from 1997/12

From: Jennifer Rose McKenna <jrm0013@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: STANDING OVATION IN WALES
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 12:39:46 -0500

ilove seeing Seiji Ozawa conduct, he's great..here's a funny tale i heard about him..when the
boston symphony was on tour last year, during this time of the year, when the patriots were
actually good, Seiji couldn't see the games, and he would tape them and see them a couple of
days later..and if anyone saw the game or heard anything about it, and told Seiji, he would be
furious becuase he wanted to see the game...i heard him get really mad at one of the trumpet
players...hehehehehe

jennifer mckenna
jrm0013@-----.edu
university of north texas
clarinet concentration/music ed major

On Thu, 04 Dec 1997 01:59:57 -0500 avrahm galper <agalper@-----.com>
wrote:

> Standing ovation in Wales
>
> Most everyone knows that Wales is in the United Kingdom (England). If
> they didn't see the movie "How green was my Valley" when it first came
> out, everyone must have seen it shown on the reruns.
> Anyway, Wales is a beautiful country. Noted for their voices and famous
> choirs..
> .
> Wales is where the Toronto Symphony went for a concert. Cardiff. In a
> nearby Cathedral.
> An old edifice.
> It was cold in there. We sat in our overcoats, that how cold it was
> inside.
> Luckily, I played Tschaikovsky V and thus didn't have to change
> clarinets during the concert..
> We always played encores, wherever we went.
> The encores were Brahms Hungarian dance #3, Strauss pizzicato polka.
> The beauty about these encores was that our conductor, Seiji Ozawa
> would choreograph the conducting.
> Even if you were deaf, you could imagine what it should sound like.
> The sequence was always the same, at the end of the big work; we would
> take a bow. Seiji would run off and on a few times and we would start
> playing encores.
>
> After all, the audience is appreciative.
> In this Cathedral before the concert, the Pastor held forth a little
> speech and asked the audience to show their appreciation for the playing
> by standing up. No clapping.
> So every piece we played, the assembly stood up silently and Seiji asked
> us stand up to acknowledge that.
>
> Guess what? After the Tschaikovsky , the audience stood up and we stood
> up also.
> The only way to get an encore is if the audience were to stand and sit,
> stand and sit ,stand and sit.
> So we got our standing ovation.
> And they didn't get any encores!
> An early night off!
>
> Avrahm Galper

   
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