Klarinet Archive - Posting 000251.txt from 1999/07

From: avrahm galper <agalper@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] standing ovation
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 20:24:42 -0400

Standing ovation in Wales

Most everyone knows that Wales is in the United Kingdom (England). If
they didn't see the movie "How green was my Valley" when it first came
out, everyone must have seen it shown on reruns.
Anyway, Wales is a beautiful country. Noted for their voices and famous
choirs..
.
Wales is where the Toronto Symphony went for a concert. Cardiff. In a
nearby Cathedral.
An old edifice.
It was cold in there. We sat in our overcoats, that's how cold it was
inside.
Luckily, I played Tschaikovsky V and thus didn't have to change
clarinets during the concert..
We always played encores, wherever we went.
The encores were Brahms Hungarian dance #3, Strauss pizzicato polka etc.
The beauty about these encores was that our conductor, Seiji Ozawa
would choreograph the conducting.
Even if you were deaf, you could imagine what it should sound like.
The sequence was always the same, at the end of the big work; we would
take a bow. Seiji would run off and on a few times and we would start
playing encores.

After all, the audience is appreciative.
In this Cathedral before the concert, the Pastor held forth a little
speech and asked the audience to show their appreciation for the playing
by standing up. No clapping.
So every piece we played, the assembly stood up silently and Seiji asked
us to stand up to acknowledge that.

Guess what? After the Tschaikovsky , the audience stood up and we stood
up also.
The only way to get an encore was if the audience were to stand and sit,
stand and sit ,stand and sit.
We got our standing ovation.
But they didn't get any encores!
An early night off!

--
Avrahm Galper
CLARINET TONE TECHNIQUE AND STACCATO
CLARINET UPBEAT SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS
http://www.sneezy.org/avrahm_galper/index.html

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