Klarinet Archive - Posting 001011.txt from 2000/06

From: bob and deborah shaw <theshaws@-----.com>
Subj: Re: SV: [kl] Cuckoos [was: [kl] C clarinet, was: other stuff]
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 21:50:41 -0400

There is also a cuckoo in Saint Saens, Carnival of the Animals. We played the
piece this past season for a series of childrens concerts and our conductor
said to the children "and our cuckoo is the clarinet player." The orchestra
got a big kick out of that one.

"Alf Hörberg" wrote:

> There is another co-co in R. Strauss: "Ein Alpensymphonie"
>
> Alf
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <LeliaLoban@-----.com>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:10 PM
> Subject: [kl] Cuckoos [was: [kl] C clarinet, was: other stuff]
>
> > David B. Niethamer wrote,
> > >Has everyone noticed that we get all the cuckoos? Mahler 1, Beethoven 6,
> > >Delius "On hearing the First Cuckoo..." Is this an editorial comment, or
> > >what? ;-)
> >
> > LOL! I used to wonder the same thing. I figured a cuckoo bird probably
> > sounded something like a cuckoo clock. Then, the first time I heard a
> real,
> > live cuckoo bird remark, "Cuckoo!" I had to laugh, because it sounded
> > *exactly* like a clarinet playing, "Cuckoo!" 'Fraid we're stuck with the
> > role.
> >
> > Lelia
> > [bong] Cuckoo!
> > [bong] Cuckoo!
> > [bong] Cuckoo!
> >
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