Klarinet Archive - Posting 000721.txt from 2000/07

From: "Michael D. Moors" <mdmoors@-----.us>
Subj: Re: [kl] ICA winner -- Shoot the pianist
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 23:17:31 -0400

At 06:31 PM 7/20/00 -0700, you wrote:
> It's a small world. Somebody on the list was asking who won the
>ClarinetFest performance competition. I happened to meet him today at a
>master class. I asked if he wanted to give out his email address, and
>he replied "Sure, that's fine by me."
> So if the person who was asking still wants the email address, I
>have it in my wallet now.
>
>
> It happened that, at the master class, the piano accompanist and
>one of the students were sick. So the instructor played for us with a
>substitute pianist and no rehearsal. What did he choose to play? The
>same Tosca piece (not Saint Saens, that was my error) that Alessandro
>Carbonare used as his 'encore' at ClarinetFest. Given the fact that the
>pianist was a last minute stand-in, and the class was small and more
>relaxed, I commented afterwards to the instructor (Fred Ormand), "Well,
>at least you didn't need to shoot the pianist."
> I expected that he would ask me what I was talking about; but
>instead he replied without hesitation and with a grin, "Yes, I know
>Alessandro's encores quite well."
>
> It *is* a small world.
>
>
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