Klarinet Archive - Posting 000360.txt from 1998/10

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Werner Klemperer
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:17:48 -0400

Kevin Fay (LCA) wrote:

> Needless to say, the younger Klemperer was a hideous conductor. The fact
> that he apparently could not read music was a clue. This didn't matter that
> much, though, as he insisted on conducting the gig from memory--with a style
> very much like a drum major. Unmistakably Col. Klink.
>
> With Dan Leeson's post re Wagner in mind, the whole episode now has an
> additional layer of irony.

I can see it now...they hand Werner K the score to Meistersinger, he looks at
it, and says "I knoooow nothing! I seeee nothing! I heeeeaaaar nothing!!"

I know, it was Sgt. Schultz's line, but it fits:-).

SOME of us around here are old enough to remember "Hogan's Heros." Ha.
--
Kenneth Wolman http//www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/1649

Let it come, as it will, and don't
be afraid. God does not leave us
comfortless, so let evening come.

--Jane Kenyon

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