Klarinet Archive - Posting 000320.txt from 1999/07

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Nickname for Seiji Ozawa?
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 18:03:54 -0400

On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Frank Galiani wrote:

> We have an announcer on WBJC in Baltimore who tells us what
> peeee-a-nist is playing shopin.

Years ago, the campus radio station at the University of Evansville had a
time devoted to classical music. They would take communications majors,
some of whom might never have heard art music before, put them in the
studio with a stack of classical records, and in effect tell them that
they were classical D.J.'s. As you can imagine, the results ranged from
comical to almost tragic.

Once I tuned in and heard the last couple of minutes of Tchaikowsky's 4th
Symphnoy. After it ended the announcer said, and I am quoting this word
for word, because I can never forget it:

"That was...... (pause)..... (sound of papers shuffling as he reached for
the album cover) Cha-KOW-ski's symphony number....... 4, 5, and 6. Of
course, that wasn't all the same song, but what the heck?!"

Now, how can you argue with logic like that?

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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