Klarinet Archive - Posting 000709.txt from 1999/03

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] WATCH THE DECIBELS!
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 04:51:20 -0500

Florence is a good laugh, though, late at night, after lots of serious
wine.

Roger S.

On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:20:39 -1300
> From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] WATCH THE DECIBELS!
>
> > From: MX%"klarinet@-----.22
> > Subj: [kl] WATCH THE DECIBELS!
>
> > Avrahm Galper wrote,
> > >People in Fort Lupton, Colorado who play their stereos too loudly are being
> > sentenced by Judge Paul Sacco to listen to sounds they don't like. The
> > scofflaws, mostly teenagers, gather once a month on a weekend night to hear
> > court-sentenced music. Teenagers must endure Wayne Newton, Dean Martin,
> > Navaho flute music, bagpipes and John Denver songs. On one occasion they had
> > to sit through one of Judge Sacco's own jazz composition "I'm sleeping in my
> > Car".>
> >
> > LOL! Makes me imagine *why* a judge might have to sleep in his car. Does his
> > family make his clarinet or trumpet or whatever it is sleep out there with
> > him?
> >
> > At least the Fort Lupton scofflaws only have to serve Judge Sacco's sentences
> > one night a month. Wonder what kinds of Muzak a devilish DJ pipes into all
> > the rooms in Musical Hell? The Muzak runs 24 hrs. a day, of course, and
> > there's no way to turn it off. There are no ear plugs in Hell.
> >
> > Clarinetists' Hell: random squeaks, chirps, honks and grunts
> >
> > Serialist Composers' Hell: nothing but Tchaikovsky and Johann Strauss
> >
> > Nazi Composers' Hell: "The Music Survives" (London 452 664-2) on continuous
> > loop
> >
> > Organists' Hell: Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, on an electro-
> > pneumatic organ with four manuals and full pedal board, but only one stop on
> > each: Settima 1-1/7' on the Great, Nasardo 2-2/3' on the Positive, Flageoletta
> > 2' on the Swell, Unda Maris on the Choir and Sopra-Ottava 4' on the Pedal.
> > Plus Tremolante, of course.
> >
> > Very Special Room in Hell for Drummers: Absolute silence. Thanks to the
> > Soundproofing from Hell, they can't even hear themselves belch.
> >
> > Lelia
>
> To add to Lelia's excellent list:
>
> Singer's hell: a recital by Florence Foster Jenkins, a wealthy NY
> woman who used to rent Carnegie Hall and give vocal recitals some
> of which were recorded simply to demonstrate her monstrous
> incompetence. Her favorite was the Queen of the Night aria from
> Magic Flute, and I would agree to anything not to have to be
> sentenced to listen to it.
>
>
>
> >
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