Klarinet Archive - Posting 000939.txt from 1998/09

From: pharmacy <pharmacy@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] The Clarinet in Literature
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 22:04:49 -0400

While reading Dickens' "Little Dorrit" I was surprised and amused to
come upon the following:

"There was a ruined uncle in the family group... Naturally a retired and
simple man, he had shown no particular sense of being ruined, at the
time when that calamity fell upon him, further than that he left off
washing himself when the shock was announced, and never took to that
luxury any more. He had been a very indifferent musical amateur in his
better days; and when he fell with his brother, resorted for support to
playing a clarionet as dirty as himself in a small Theatre Orchestra. It
was the theatre in which his niece became a dancer; he had been a
fixture there a long time when she took her poor station in it; and he
accepted the task of serving as her escort and guardian, just as he
would have accepted an illness, a legacy, a feast, starvation - anything
but soap."

Do we have here the buds of the modern-day rock star? Does anyone else
have a reference in literature to the clarinet?

Carol

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