Klarinet Archive - Posting 000265.txt from 1998/10

From: Richard White <whitco@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: Nutcracker
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:18:42 -0400

Neil Wrote:
> You're really missing something quite nice if you don't know
> what's going on above the pit -- especially the way S.F.
> does it.

Then

Dan Wrote:
>. . . . . . . And the last thing I would ever conceive of
>doing is going to any production of that work. When one
>plays something that many times (as I am sure you have done,
>too), it ceases to hold very much pleasure. I think I can
>do without the Waltz of the Flowers for the rest of my life.

The cure for this lies in attending a Mark Morris production!

Having once been laid prostrate by this work, I now run marathons twice
monthly in preparation for my sprint to the box office when in New York at
Christmas time. (Anyone know if this show goes on the road or been on
television?) It's really a *don't miss* experience!

Best,

RICHARD WHITE - COMPOSER - who invites you to visit him at:
http://www.flash.net/~whitco
With printed samples of guitar, woodwind/piano, solo piano,
brass quintet, choral music available for download.
whitco@-----.net

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