Klarinet Archive - Posting 000678.txt from 1998/01

From: Jacqueline Eastwood <eastwooj@-----.EDU>
Subj: Dan Leeson is a total horndog was Re: Apologies to Michael Whight - Re: Vibrato (Redux)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 16:24:54 -0500

On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

<SNIP>
>
> Now what act of a human is most closely associated with conjugal
> love? Answer (in my opinion): trembling; i.e., one trembles
> with passion, one trembles with love, one trembles with jealousy.
>
> In effect, trembling is the single most used term to describe the
> array of emotions that can occur in a man/woman relationship.
> And in music the most picturesque way to duplicate or simulate
> that phenomenon is with vibrato, and that is because it causes
> the music to tremble, LITERALLY!
>
<SNIP>
>
> But not Mozart. He was a virgin and tinkly. Do you not think
> that Mozart was a passionate individual? That his music smoulders
> with sexual overtones (and undertones, too)? That he was as horny
> as a bull in heat? He was indeed.
>
<SNIP>
>
> And if someone cannot play K. 622, second movement, without causing
> my heart to burst (not literally, please, I've been there before),
> then you are probably a lousy lover and should take lessons on the
> art of making love. Only when you play that movement and leave the
> audience awestruck at your passion (part of which was created through
> your mastery of vibrato) have you reached the 6th degree of black belt
> horniness.
>
> Is that word-picture clear?
>
>
>
> =======================================
> Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
> Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
> leeson@-----.edu
> =======================================
>

I rest my case.

P.S. I personally find that the new Led Zeppelin CD of the BBC recordings
really gets *me* going; I had never thought of Mozart in such a way
before but perhaps now I will try it. I certainly won't be playing K. 622
within Dan's earshot any time soon because I don't think my fragile libido
(?) could handle the criticism.

Jacqueline Eastwood
University of Arizona/Arizona Opera Orchestra
eastwooj@-----.edu