Klarinet Archive - Posting 000216.txt from 1999/09

From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] More... Audience Distractions - A Response
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 03:25:09 -0400

At the ICA conference at Gent
6 years ago a clarinettist strode
onto the platform and interrupted
the last concert items for before a break
for lunch saying loudly, so the audience
could hear, that it had gone on long enough
and they should stop playing so he could rehearse
That player was Eddie Daniels
I rest my case.
Mike Bryant

Frederick S. Sterns wrote 23 August 1999 16:04 More... Audience
Distractions - A Response

>Here's a true story appropos of nothing...and probably worth the same...but
>here goes!
>
>A couple or three winters ago I attended a concert with Lyn Harrel,
>Ashkenazi, and Isaac Stern. It had been a bad season cold and flu-wise. But
>every seat in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall was filled.
>
>After the second or third movement of whatever they were playing, Stern
>lowered his volin, looked angrily at the audience [I was in the fourth row
>center and could see every line in his face] and said, "This is a piece for
>violin, cello, and piano...not violin and coughing. If you can't stop,
>leave the hall!"
>
>I'm curious to hear comments. My own view was, he should have known better.
>I view this as inexcusable arrogance. What do you think?
>
>Fred S.
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