Klarinet Archive - Posting 000657.txt from 2000/09

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Toscanini Fired!
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:12:27 -0400

<><> announced today that famed conductor Arturo Toscanini had
been fired. This was a result of his failure to conform to the network's
"zero tolerance" policy imposed last spring.

The thought that flitted through my mind as I read the above
(hilarious indeed) was: Should music and athletics share the same
ethical standards in the first place?
Buried (several levels deep) in the above satire is the implication
that the performing arts rightfully should have their own set of ethics
-- more than just different criteria for excellence of performance --
especially where extremes of temperament are concerned.

Context, context, context......

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