Klarinet Archive - Posting 000036.txt from 2000/10

From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: [kl] Silly things with clarinets
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 03:00:14 -0400

Accidentally (I cannot emphasise that too much),
I came across a short scene in an old episode
of Star Trek, Deep Space Something
in which one of the adult earth-based
characters plays fragments of Mozart (et al.) on the clarinet,
- but not very well. Very antisocial, but not unique.
Shakespeare asks some of his rude mechanicals to entertain,
Anouilh provides his play "Thieves Carnival" (Le bal des voleurs)
with a clarinettist who plays on stage, but best of all (for my money)
is the character of the village clarinettist Klasek in Novak's most
successful opera "The Lantern" who is total cowardly and
sycophantic, has only a speaking part and is constantly
scolded by his wife.

Star Trek provides a poor mass-image of
the instrument and certainly would warrant a visit
from "Animal Protection", if they had dogs on board.
The player covered in bees was better.

M
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